@article {308906,
	title = {Storytelling and story testing in domestication.},
	journal = {Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A},
	volume = {111},
	year = {2014},
	note = {http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/04/16/1400425111.abstract?sid=99d6145f-f974-4306-8f41-8be82401ceed},
	month = {2014 Apr 29},
	pages = {6159-64},
	abstract = {<p>The domestication of plants and animals marks one of the most significant transitions in human, and indeed global, history. Traditionally, study of the domestication process was the exclusive domain of archaeologists and agricultural scientists; today it is an increasingly multidisciplinary enterprise that has come to involve the skills of evolutionary biologists and geneticists. Although the application of new information sources and methodologies has dramatically transformed our ability to study and understand domestication, it has also generated increasingly large and complex datasets, the interpretation of which is not straightforward. In particular, challenges of equifinality, evolutionary variance, and emergence of unexpected or counter-intuitive patterns all face researchers attempting to infer past processes directly from patterns in data. We argue that explicit modeling approaches, drawing upon emerging methodologies in statistics and population genetics, provide a powerful means of addressing these limitations. Modeling also offers an approach to analyzing datasets that avoids conclusions steered by implicit biases, and makes possible the formal integration of different data types. Here we outline some of the modeling approaches most relevant to current problems in domestication research, and demonstrate the ways in which simulation modeling is beginning to reshape our understanding of the domestication process.</p>},
	keywords = {Animals, Animals, Domestic, Crops, Agricultural, Humans, Hybridization, Genetic, Models, Biological, Narration},
	issn = {1091-6490},
	doi = {10.1073/pnas.1400425111},
	url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24753572},
	author = {Gerbault, Pascale and Allaby, Robin G and Boivin, Nicole and Rudzinski, Anna and Grimaldi, Ilaria M and Pires, J Chris and Climer Vigueira, Cynthia and Dobney, Keith and Gremillion, Kristen J and Barton, Loukas and Arroyo-Kalin, Manuel and Purugganan, Michael D and Rubio de Casas, Rafael and Bollongino, Ruth and Burger, Joachim and Fuller, Dorian Q and Bradley, Daniel G and Balding, David J and Richerson, Peter J and Gilbert, M Thomas P and Larson, Greger and Thomas, Mark G}
}
