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Pig domestication updated

February 20, 2009

Vavilov was correct when he said that pigs were independently domesticated in China and in the Near East. But the real story is even more complicated than that. In Vavilov’s day, the idea was that pigs had been domesticated from wild boar in the Near East and then carried with them by Neolithic farmers as [...]

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