After centuries of sustained effort, zebras remain evidence that domestication depends less on human ambition than on evolutionary compatibility. Human history is often framed as a steady expansion of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A zebra and a horse side by side, both appear to be laughing. That last question comes straight from the always-interesting and ...

Perhaps the most puzzling question Jared Diamond encounters as he investigates animal domestication is: Why were no large mammals ever domesticated in tropical Africa? Africa, south of the Sahara, is ...