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Along with plant transportation, the Old World and New World exchanged many animal species. Europeans introduced such domestic animals as cattle, pigs, chickens, goats, and sheep to North America, with the intent of using the animal meat for food, and hides or wool for clothing. They also inadvertently brought pest animals and plants, such as ...
Jul 4, 2017 · Farming Plants – A Comparison. A report from the Humane Party analyzes the land-use, efficiency, and profitability of animal farming versus plant farming. The fact that animal agriculture is much more resource intensive than plant agriculture has become fairly well known among animal advocates.
Aug 8, 2002 · As initially recognized by Darwin 12, and elaborated by Rindos 13, many of the differences between domestic plants and their wild ancestors evolved as consequences of wild plants being...
The cultivation of major crop species may have arisen independently more than once. Productive and stable food production could be based on morphologically wild plants.
- Dolores R. Piperno
- 2011
May 22, 2019 · Plant agriculture leaves one of humanity's biggest ecological footprints and hence has major implications for wild-animal suffering. Crop cultivation plausibly reduces populations of large animals, although the sign of impact is less clear for insects, and overall there's extremely high uncertainty in this analysis.
Summary. To better understand the term ‘domestication syndrome’ (the group of traits that differentiate wild plants from domesticated crop plants; see Box 16 The domestication syndrome, p. 116), a deeper investigation into the differences between natural habitats, where wild species grow, and cultivated fields is required.
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May 21, 2017 · The most salient difference between plants and animals is that the latter tend to produce larger (fewer) offspring under sub-optimal conditions while seed plants invest in smaller (many) seeds, suggesting that maternal genetic control over offspring size increases in plants but decreases in animals with parental care.
