Domestication

Pigs have personalities, and a curiously compelling history of domestication. But that doesn’t mean we’re ever going to stop eating them.

• By James McWilliams

Reductions in certain stem cells that account for requisite levels of fear and stress also code for cute morphologies.

• By John Upton

How have the farm animals of today been shaped by centuries of domestication and selective breeding? Sujata Gupta investigates.

• By Sujata Gupta