A Natural History of Domesticated Mammals

摘要: Preface and acknowledgements Introduction 1. The meat supply of hunter-gatherers Section I. Animal Partners: 2. process domestication 3. Selective breeding the definition a breed 4. Dogs 5. origins domestic livestock - why bother to farm? 6. Sheep goats 7. Cattle 8. Pigs 9. Horses 10. Asses, mules hinnies II. Exploited Captives: 11. Cats 12. Elephants 13. Camels llamas 14. Reindeer 15. Asiatic cattle, excluding zebu III. Small Mammals: 16. rabbit ferret 17. Rodents carnivores exploited for food fur IV. Experimental Domestication Ranching, Past Present: 18. cheetah, aquatic mammals, deer bovids Conclusions geography Appendix Nomenclature mammals Climatic sequences archaeological divisions Quaternary period References further reading Index.