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The causes of domestication: an attempt to integrate some ideas of konrad lorenz with evolution theory

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Allopatric cultivation, usually alters the habitat, and captivity, by definition, removes the developmental systems from the range of environmental stimuli for which they have been stabilized.

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Spurway, H. The causes of domestication: an attempt to integrate some ideas of konrad lorenz with evolution theory. J Genet 53, 325–362 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02993986

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