Six rooms: the wild boar, domestication, Europe, Spain's dehesa, the Americas from de Soto at Bradenton (1539), and a hard question about the pig's own life.
From the wild boar of the forest to the dehesa of Spain and the hog yards of the Americas, ending with a hard question about what domestication has meant for the pig itself.
The most widespread wild pig on Earth: range, rooting, family life and a clever forager.
Anatolia and China, the scavengers at the village edge, and what ancient DNA revealed.
Roman pork, the medieval forest pig, the cottage pig, the town pig, and Chinese blood in English breeds.
The Iberian pig under the oaks, the acorn season, the ham label, pork as a test of faith, and the pigs that sailed west.
From de Soto at Bradenton to razorbacks, hog drives, Porkopolis and the disassembly line.
Harari's question: a triumph for the species, a misery for the animal? The evidence on pig minds, the law, and the other side.
The pig carries more meaning than any other farm animal: forbidden as food in Jewish and Muslim law, the herd of Gadarene swine in the Gospel of Mark, and Wilbur in E. B. White's Charlotte's Web (1952). The theory notebook follows that thread.
From the barn to the meaning of clean and unclean.