8,000 years of wild and domestic animal body size data reveal long-term synchrony and recent divergence due to intensified human impact

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, number 36, September 2025.
The significant study explores how human and environmental influences have shaped animal morphology in the last 8,000 y. By analyzing the evolution of body size in wild and domestic animals in the northwest of the Mediterranean, it reveals a long-term synchrony in …