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Jul 17, 2023 · Domestication is a process, says Sarah Crowley. She studies the relationship between humans and animals at the University of Exeter in England. And it’s a process that many familiar animals have undergone. These include dogs, of course, as well as cats, sheep, cattle, pigs and goats.
domestication, Process of hereditary reorganization of wild animals and plants into forms more accommodating to the interests of people. In its strictest sense, it refers to the initial stage of human mastery of wild animals and plants.
Oct 19, 2023 · Domestication Origins. Domestication is a 10,000-year-old process in which people found new ways to control different plants and animals to better suit human needs. Archaeologists and scientists are using genetic testing to continue to study how ancient people did this.
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Oct 26, 2020 · The domestication of plants and animals represents a key turning point in human history. This first foray into genetic engineering created new varieties of plants and animals that could be grown around the world – most often at the expense of other species that remained outside a domestic partnership with humans.
Aug 8, 2002 · Domestication interests us as the most momentous change in Holocene human history. Why did it operate on so few wild species, in so few geographic areas?
Aug 1, 2022 · The core nature of domestication is as the coevolution between domesticator and domesticate. Evolutionary and ecological studies with both human-associated domestication and non-human domesticators can help us understand the nature of this phenomenon. The nature of domestication is often misunderstood. Most definitions of the process are ...
An overarching, biologically grounded definition of domestication is discussed, which emphasizes its core nature as a coevolutionary process that arises from a specialized mutualism, in which one species controls the fitness of another in order to gain resources and/or services.
