From hunter-gatherers to farmers: The legacy of domestication
The domestication of plants, animals, and micro-organisms represents one of – if not the – major transitions in recent human history. This process profoundly transformed our societies, our ways of life, and our relationship with nature. By replacing a large share of natural ecosystems with agroecosystems, it triggered ecological changes of great magnitude, the consequences of which we experience today, from the expansion of agriculture to its major impacts on climate and biodiversity.
Studying domestication means exploring a remarkable diversity of species and processes. Archaeology, anthropology, evolutionary biology, genetics, and ecology all contribute to understanding this major transition. How did domestication unfold? Why have relatively few species followed this trajectory? What common patterns emerge from studying their evolution? What can domestication teach us about the history of human societies and their subsistence strategies? How have continued interactions with wild populations influenced the evolution of domesticated forms? How has domestication reshaped interactions between organisms and their associated microbes?
With intensifying environmental and climate challenges, domestication has acquired renewed significance. The emergence of agroecology at the interface between ecology and agronomy, the rapid development of new breeding technologies based on genome editing, and growing interest in de novo domestication or re-domestication are opening new perspectives and raising scientific, societal, and ethical questions relevant to the future of agriculture.
This conference will provide a unique forum for crossing perspectives and fostering interdisciplinary exchange, bringing together researchers working on plants, animals, microorganisms, and the human societies that shaped them. It will address six complementary themes:
- Domestication and evolution of human societies
- Shared patterns underlying phenotypic evolution
- Demographic and selective histories
- Crosstalks between wild and domesticates
- The evolution of biotic interactions in the wake of domestication
- Farming in a changing world
Chairperson
Maud TENAILLON
CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay GQE-Le Moulon, IDEEV, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Phone : +33666315169
E-mail : maud.tenaillon@cnrs.fr
Vice-chairperson
Robin Allaby
University of Warwick School of Life Sciences, Gibbet Hill Road, CV4 7AL Coventry, Royaume-Uni
Phone : +442476575059
E-mail : R.G.Allaby@warwick.ac.uk
(provisional titles)
Jonas AGUIRRE-LIGUORI (Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, México)
Forecasting eco-evolutionary responses of crops to global change
Robin ALLABY (University of Warwick, UK)
How deep does the trajectory of domestication go in time?
Elena BITOCCHI (Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy)
The complex evolutionary history of the common bean
Amy BOGAARD (University of Oxford, Oxford, UK)
Emerging questions about domestication in Europe
Daniel BRADLEY (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
What would Prince do? Ancient ruminant genomes and the nature of animal domestication
Allowen EVIN (CNRS/Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution-Montpellier, France)
Long-term trajectories of phenotypic change under human control
Hélène FREVILLE (INRAE, Montpellier, France)
Harnessing plant–plant interactions for the agroecological transition: a genetic perspective
Dorian FULLER (University College London, UK)
Comparing domestication episodes: rates and extents of evolution across crop types, modes of selection, and cultural regions
Miriam GIFFORD (University of Warwick, UK)
Timely nitrogen-fixing symbiosis: co-evolution of plant and rhizobia?
Tatiana GIRAUD (CNRS, University Paris Saclay, Paris, France)
The domestication of molds for making cheese and dry-cured meat
Sylvain GLEMIN (CNRS, ECOBIO Rennes, France)
Evolution of recombination during domestication
Greger LARSON (University of Oxford, Oxford, UK)
What we talk about when we talk about domestication
Valérie LE CORRE (INRAE Agroecology, Dijon, France)
Crop gene flow into related weeds as a source of new adaptations: the case of European weedy teosintes
Christophe LEMAIRE (Sorbonne Université, Paris, France)
The genomics of pestification
Kathryn LORD (University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School,Worcester MA, US)
Domestication without the need for control, utility, intention or mutualism
Ruben MILLA (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain)
Domesticated phenotypes investigated through experimental evolution and artificial selection
Fabio de OLIVEIRA FREITAS (Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia, Brasília, Brezil)
Ethnobiology and Ethnoarchaeology of maize and manioc: Domestication, diversity, dispersal, and indigenous knowledge in South America
Morgane OLLIVIER (UMR 6566 CReAAH, University of Rennes, France)
The origins of the dog: from domestication to adaptations shaped by cultural changes
Ludovic ORLANDO (Centre of Anthropobiology and Genomics of Toulouse, Toulouse, France)
The domestic horse: origins, dispersal, and selection through time
Katja POVEDA (Cornell University, Cornell, US)
Domestication, diversity, and plant–insect interactions in a changing landscape
Jazmin RAMOS MADRIGAL(Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Reconstructing maize selection history during domestication using ancient genomes
Guillaume RAMSTEIN (Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark)
Learning from evolution to improve plant precision breeding
Jeff ROSS-IBARRA (University of California Davis, Davis, US)
Human impacts on maize diversity over last 10K years
Maud TENAILLON (Génétique Quantitative et Evolution – Le Moulon, Saclay, France)
Domestication as a step toward reproductive isolation
Yves VIGOUROUX (IRD, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France)
Legacy of somestication, lessonsfrom the African domestication process
Notification of acceptance or rejection for the submitted paper will be intimated within 15 working days of abstract submission deadline. If your abstract is accepted, you will receive a confirmation e-mail with instructions for joining the meeting.