Jason at Hominim Dental Anthropology (a bit of a mouthful; hahahaha) has been taking a look at some recent papers on domestication. The papers are, by his own admission, nothing new. We’ve covered some of them ourselves here. What I thought was interesting was the stress on the timing and duration of domestication and Jason’s views of what constitutes “nature” and “natural”. He seems, to me, to be a bit confused as to whether Homo sapiens (just another unique species, as Rob Foley puts it) is a part of nature, or apart from nature and yet with its (our?) own nature.