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SUMMARY:The Domestic Pig: Selective Breeding and Prevailing Tastes\, Morph
 ological and Genetic Variation over 100 Generations - Dr Ashleigh Haruda\,
  Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg
DTSTART:20190118T131500Z
DTEND:20190118T140000Z
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CONTACT:Emily Tilby
DESCRIPTION:Ancient genetics as well as geometric morphometrics have begun
  to clarify to locations and timings of multiple animal domestications\, i
 ncluding horses\, dogs and pigs. However\, it is still unclear how quickly
  these domestic organisms changed from their wild predecessors into domest
 icated forms. Furthermore\, the emergence of breeds within a given species
 \, which has been postulated as a feature of urbanization and the emergenc
 e of market economies\, is as yet unmeasured\, due largely to an inability
  to distinguish between the natural range of variation and human selection
  pressures upon the genome and the skeleton. \nThe Sus 100 project utilise
 s an interdisciplinary approach to this problem which synthesizes the meth
 ods of biology\, livestock science\, and archaeological science within a s
 ocial framework to evaluate the biological effects of human driven selecti
 on pressures upon an ideal model organism\, the domesticated pig. Based up
 on the unique domestic animal collections at the Central Natural Science C
 ollections at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg\, modern and histo
 rical specimens from two key pig breeds\, the Deutsch Edelschwein and the 
 Deutsch Landschwein\, are compared with wild boar remains which were colle
 cted from German forests. The first methodological approaches to creating 
 a synthesised approach the genetics using modern day low-cost SNP chip tec
 hniques are presented\, as well as exploratory statistical models for docu
 menting geometric morphometric variation across the skeleton. This project
  acts as a modern case study not only to model the responsiveness of the S
 us scrofa to evolutionary pressure but also to evaluate osteological respo
 nse to intense culturally-driven human selection upon past animal populati
 ons. 
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research\, D
 owning Site
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