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The Domestication of Animals and the Roots of the Anthropocene

Lee Ann Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut, How To Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017), viii + 216 pp., 16 color illus., $26.00 Cloth, ISBN: 9780226444185 Richard C. Francis, Domesticated: Evolution in a Man-Made World (New York: W. W. Norton, 2015), xii + 484 pp., 74 b&w illus., $17.95 Paperback, ISBN: 9780393353037 Pat Shipman, The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015), xvi + 266 pp., 23 b&w illus., $29.95 Cloth, ISBN: 9780674736764, $18.95 Paperback, ISBN: 9780674975415

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Lynch, W.T. The Domestication of Animals and the Roots of the Anthropocene. J Hist Biol 52, 209–217 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-019-9555-1

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