How Humans Reshaped the Pig's Skull in Just 100 Years
Unintended Consequences of Industrial Breeding
The evolution of species is often framed as a gradual process unfolding over millennia. Yet, sometimes evolution speeds up—not through natural selection but through human intervention. A new study, Evolution under Intensive Industrial Breeding: Skull Size and Shape Comparison Between Historic and Modern Pig Lineages1 by Ashleigh Haruda and colleagues, re…
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