Definitions for domestication
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.8 / 8 votes

1. domesticationnoun

   adaptation to intimate association with human beings

2. tameness, domesticationnoun

   the attribute of having been domesticated

3. domesticationnoun

   accommodation to domestic life

   "her explorer husband resisted all her attempts at domestication"

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1. domesticationnoun

   The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals or breeding plants.

2. domesticationnoun

   The act of domesticating, or making a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.

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1. Domestication

   Domestication is a sustained multi-generational relationship in which humans assume a significant degree of control over the reproduction and care of another group of organisms to secure a more predictable supply of resources from that group. A broader biological definition is that it is a coevolutionary process that arises from a mutualism, in which one species (the domesticator) constructs an environment where it actively manages both the survival and reproduction of another species (the domesticate) in order to provide the former with resources and/or services. The domestication of plants and animals by humans was a major cultural innovation ranked in importance with the conquest of fire, the manufacturing of tools, and the development of verbal language.Charles Darwin recognized the small number of traits that made domestic species different from their wild ancestors. He was also the first to recognize the difference between conscious selective breeding (i.e. artificial selection) in which humans directly select for desirable traits, and unconscious selection where traits evolve as a by-product of natural selection or from selection on other traits. There is a genetic difference between domestic and wild populations. There is also such a difference between the domestication traits that researchers believe to have been essential at the early stages of domestication, and the improvement traits that have appeared since the split between wild and domestic populations. Domestication traits are generally fixed within all domesticates, and were selected during the initial episode of domestication of that animal or plant, whereas improvement traits are present only in a proportion of domesticates, though they may be fixed in individual breeds or regional populations.The dog was the first domesticated species, and was established across Eurasia before the end of the Late Pleistocene era, well before cultivation and before the domestication of other animals. The archaeological and genetic data suggest that long-term bidirectional gene flow between wild and domestic stocks – including donkeys, horses, New and Old World camelids, goats, sheep, and pigs – was common. Given its importance to humans and its value as a model of evolutionary and demographic change, domestication has attracted scientists from archaeology, paleontology, anthropology, botany, zoology, genetics, and the environmental sciences. Among birds, the major domestic species today is the chicken, important for meat and eggs, though economically valuable poultry include the turkey, guineafowl and numerous other species. Birds are also widely kept as cagebirds, from songbirds to parrots. The longest established invertebrate domesticates are the honey bee and the silkworm. Land snails are raised for food, while species from several phyla are kept for research, and others are bred for biological control. The domestication of plants began at least 12,000 years ago with cereals in the Middle East, and the bottle gourd in Asia. Agriculture developed in at least 11 different centres around the world, domesticating different crops and animals.

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1. domestication

   Domestication refers to the process wherein humans selectively breed and manipulate wild animals or plants species for human benefit, resulting in genetic changes over time that makes them distinctly different from their wild ancestors. This leads to the creation of species that are more beneficial, manageable, or controllable. Domestication can refer to both plants and animals used for food, work, clothing, medicine, and companionship.

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1. Domesticationnoun

   the act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals

2. Etymology: [Cf. F. domestication.]

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1. Domestication

   Domestication is the process where by a population of animals or plants is changed at the genetic level through a process of selection, in order to accentuate traits that benefit humans. It differs from taming in that a change in the phenotypical expression and genotype of the animal occurs, whereas taming is simply the process by which animals become accustomed to human presence. In the Convention on Biological Diversity, a domesticated species is defined as a "species in which the evolutionary process has been influenced by humans to meet their needs." Therefore, a defining characteristic of domestication is artificial selection by humans. Humans have brought these populations under their control and care for a wide range of reasons: to produce food or valuable commodities, for types of work, scientific research, or simply to enjoy as companions or ornaments. Plants domesticated primarily for aesthetic enjoyment in and around the home are usually called house plants or ornamentals, while those domesticated for large-scale food production are generally called crops. A distinction can be made between those domesticated plants that have been deliberately altered or selected for special desirable characteristics and those plants that are used for human benefit, but are essentially no different from the wild populations of the species. Animals domesticated for home companionship are usually called pets while those domesticated for food or work are called livestock or farm animals.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of domestication in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of domestication in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of domestication in a Sentence

1. Laurent Frantz:

   Our data suggests that dogs were domesticated twice, on both sides of the Old World, this suggests that at least two group of humans independently came to the same conclusion: dogs can be domesticated. It also suggests that the process of domestication, while mostly rare, may be replicated more often than we think.

2. Greger Larson:

   Animal domestication is a rare thing and a lot of evidence is required to overturn the assumption that it happened just once in any species, our ancient DNA evidence, combined with the archaeological record of early dogs, suggests that we need to reconsider the number of times dogs were domesticated independently.

3. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

   Now domestication and sophistication of men by women are the norm and acceptable by society, but they are terrible for manhood.

4. William Taylor:

   Horse domestication was an absolute lightning strike in human history, leading to incredible, widespread, and lasting social transformations all across the ancient world, horses were an order of magnitude faster than many of the transport systems of prehistoric Eurasia, allowing people to travel, communicate, trade and raid across distances that would have previously been unthinkable.

5. Emily Bray:

   We know that adult dogs are good at these tasks, when does that start ? Does it take years of observing humans and living with humans, or is that ability something they are more biologically prepared for that has evolved over the course of domestication ?

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=domestication
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Domestication
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestication
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/domestication
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=domestication