“Wild boars were probably attracted to human settlements as people started settling down and began growing their own food,” ...

Explore the fascinating story of pig domestication and its role in human history and agricultural development.

Domestic pigs have a lot more “wild” in them than originally thought — at least from a genetic standpoint. By studying the genes of pigs and wild boars, researchers have discovered that ...

Pigs were domesticated from wild boars about 9,000 years ago. Researchers have long assumed that this process involved permanently isolating a few animals from the wild. But according to new ...

The sequence shows that wild boars have European ancestry while domesticated pigs are from the Middle East. They were first raised in the Fertile Crescent, an area that includes present-day Syria ...

Over the last 10,000 years, as humans have spread across the globe, pigs have followed alongside and played a key part in the development of society. Along with cows and sheep, domestic pigs have ...