ANS 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Wild Boar, Essential Amino Acid, Barbacoa
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Mrca (most recent common ancestor) of these two species is 500,000 years ago o o. Indian or asian orientated: mtdna -> mitochondrial dna - 2 events. Papua new guinea: how they raise pigs o. Female pigs -> in village (domesticated: when in heat -> let them out into jungle with the boars. Boars smell more -> reproductive strategy to have female find them. New guinea people rely on the females finding these pheromones o. Females impregnate and give birth back in village. For the united states -> brought by columbus in 1493 (on his second voyage) o o. Showed importance of these creatures -> never went anywhere without pigs, cattle, etc. Left 8 of his pigs on haiti -> came back and island was full of pigs: desoto -> discovered the mississippi with the his pigs -> his food supply. feral -> wild, but in ans context: escaped domestication: natives smoked these pigs -> babracot (barbacoa)
