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Adaptation to intimate association with human beings
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domestication
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Domestication \Do*mes`ti*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. F. domestication.] The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals or breeding plants. 2 The act of domesticating, or making a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument ...
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Domestication is the process whereby a population of animals is changed at the genetic level, accentuating traits desired by humans. Domestication may also refer to: Domestication theory , an approach in science, technology studies and media studies that ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. adaptation to intimate association with human beings the attribute of having been domesticated [syn: tameness ] [ant: wildness ] accommodation to domestic life; "her explorer husband resisted all her attempts at domestication"
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1774; see domestic + -ation .
Usage examples of domestication.
Third, domestication of many animals meant that European humans evolved immunity to the diseases which those animals carried and which, when they were introduced into the New World, devastated the population.
Chapter VIII Hybridism Distinction between the sterility of first crosses and of hybrids -- Sterility various in degree, not universal, affected by close interbreeding, removed by domestication -- Laws governing the sterility of hybrids -- Sterility not a special endowment, but incidental on other differences -- Causes of the sterility of first crosses and of hybrids -- Parallelism between the effects of changed conditions of life and crossing -- Fertility of varieties when crossed and of their mongrel offspring not universal -- Hybrids and mongrels compared independently of their fertility -- Summary.
Further, there is a general agreement among palaeobiologists that domestication was invented only once and then spread to western Europe and India.
Familiarity alone prevents our seeing how universally and largely the minds of our domestic animals have been modified by domestication.
But I have discovered that in this Exile world he devoted himself instead to the domestication of chatikot and heuadotberia and amphicyons, which became pivotal in the subsequent Tanu domination of society.
Inasmuch as peculiarities often appear under domestication in one sex and become hereditarily attached to that sex, the same fact probably occurs under nature, and if so, natural selection will be able to modify one sex in its functional relations to the other sex, or in relation to wholly different habits of life in the two sexes, as is sometimes the case with insects.
Chapter VIII Hybridism Distinction between the sterility of first crosses and of hybrids -- Sterility various in degree, not universal, affected by close interbreeding, removed by domestication -- Laws governing the sterility of hybrids -- Sterility not a special endowment, but incidental on other differences -- Causes of the sterility of first crosses and of hybrids -- Parallelism between the effects of changed conditions of life and crossing -- Fertility of varieties when crossed and of their mongrel offspring not universal -- Hybrids and mongrels compared independently of their fertility -- Summary.
On this view, the aboriginal species must either at first have produced quite fertile hybrids, or the hybrids must have become in subsequent generations quite fertile under domestication.
But the much greater variability, as well as the greater frequency of monstrosities, under domestication or cultivation, than under nature, leads me to believe that deviations of structure are in some way due to the nature of the conditions of life, to which the parents and their more remote ancestors have been exposed during several generations.
I cannot doubt that if other animals and plants, equal in number to our domesticated productions, and belonging to equally diverse classes and countries, were taken from a state of nature, and could be made to breed for an equal number of generations under domestication, they would vary on an average as largely as the parent species of our existing domesticated productions have varied.
The possibility, or even probability, of inherited variations of instinct in a state of nature will be strengthened by briefly considering a few cases under domestication.
Because of this ease of domestication, big-seeded annuals were the first, or among the first, crops developed not only in the Fertile Crescent but also in China and the Sahel.
Cuvier has observed that all animals that readily enter into domestication, consider man as a member of their own society, and thus fulfil their instinct of association.
Some of those related beans and barleys were indeed domesticated independently in the Americas or China, far from the early site of domestication in the Fertile Crescent.
According to Browman: ‘Plant domestication in the Altiplano required the simultaneous development of detoxifying techniques.