A Natural History of Domesticated Mammals
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 3, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780521346979
Subjects: Zoology & animal sciences; Life Sciences - Zoology - General; Science / Zoology; Science
First sentence: No one would deny that goats, sheep, cattle, pigs, and horses are supremely successful domestic animals and that human populations in most parts of the world have relied on them for some thousands of years, that is in broad terms since the Neolithic period, around 9000 years ago.