I was looking forward to reading this; I had read most of the author's other books, and the subject considered in itself is really interesting. It was a disappointment: the chapters are brief, not very informative, not charts or graphs plotting the ages and places of domestication, nor any charts about the likely procedures of domestication; the maps are nearly useless; there are only a few pictures; the chapters on dogs totally left out any mention of the evolution of African wild dogs and of Australian wild dogs (were they descended from wolves too?); birds got a brief mention, in the form of chickens rather late (p.262ff), and then only two pages; nothing about fishes; nothing about genetically modified animals.
The most interesting part was about the people who live(d) on the steppe, and how intimately they understand their environment (p.194 - Chekhov wrote a novella about the steppe and mostly expressed mind numbing boredom - it was clearly due to his own ignorance and incuriosity about the people who lived there.)
The most edifying part were the chapters about the donkey.