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Professor Alice Roberts , Professor of Public Engagement in Science answers questions about her new book 'Tamed: 10 Species That Changed Our World' . What is the latest book about? Tamed is about the deep histories of ten familiar species: dogs, apples and wheat; cattle; potatoes and chickens; rice, maize, horses, and finally, humans. I examine how each of these species became domesticated, using the latest discoveries from archaeology and genetics, and explore how teaming up with humans changed those species, and how they became intertwined with our own, human history. Why this subject?. I've been interested in human origins for ages, and I love how you can bring lots of separate strands of evidence in and weave them together. There are clues from fossils, from archaeology - the material culture of the past, from written history, and now from genetics as well. In fact, genetics is transforming our understanding of how humans evolved.