num_pages: 368
description: For hundreds of thousands of years our ancestors depended on wild plants and animals for survival. They were hunter-gatherers consummate foraging experts but taking the world as they found it. Then a revolution occurred  our ancestors interaction with other species changed. They began to tame them. The human population boomed; civilization began.In her new book Tamed Alice Roberts uncovers the amazing deep history of ten familiar species with incredible wild pasts: dogs apples and wheat; cattle; potatoes and chickens; rice maize and horses  and finally humans. Alice Roberts not only reveals how becoming part of our world changed these animals and plants but shows how they became our allies essential to the survival and success of our own species  and to our future.Enlightening wide-ranging and endlessly fascinating Tamed is an epic story encompassing hundreds of thousands of years of history and archaeology alongside cutting-edge genetics and anthropology. Yet it is also a deeply personal journey that will change how we see ourselves and the species on which we have left our mark.
language: English
title: Tamed: Ten Species That Changed Our World
publisher: Hutchinson Radius