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Domestication (not to be confused with the taming of an individual animal [3] [4] [5]), is from the Latin domesticus, 'belonging to the house'. [6] The term remained loosely defined until the 21st century, when the American archaeologist Melinda A. Zeder defined it as a long-term relationship in which humans take over control and care of another organism to gain a predictable supply of a ...
[1] [12] [29] [30] [31] This definition recognizes both the biological and the cultural components of the domestication process and the effects on both humans and the domesticated animals and plants. All past definitions of domestication have included a relationship between humans with plants and animals, but their differences lay in who was ...
The Consequences of Domestication and Sedentism Archived 15 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine. From a college textbook – Anthropology: A Perspective on the Human Condition Second Edition. pp 196–200; Keith Weber, Shannon Horst. 2011. Desertification and livestock grazing: The roles of sedentarization, mobility and rest
In fact, some scientists even believe that cats were not so much domesticated by humans, like dogs, cows, horses, and pigeons, but rather that they underwent a process known as self-domestication.
2 Effects of overlapping generations. ... including humans, ... N.B domestication of annual plants has led to a reduction of seed dormancy. These domesticated annual ...
Domestication syndrome refers to two sets of phenotypic traits that are common to either domesticated plants [1] [2] or domesticated animals. [ 3 ] Domesticated animals tend to be smaller and less aggressive than their wild counterparts; they may also have floppy ears, variations to coat color, a smaller brain, and a shorter muzzle.
Experiment conducted by the University of Barcelona to demonstrate the hypothesis of self-domestication. [1]Self-domestication is a scientific hypothesis that suggests that, similar to domesticated animals, there has been a process of artificial selection among members of the human species conducted by humans themselves. [2]
The domestication process is believed to have begun through human intervention, involving a small number of individuals and relying on reproductive isolation between wild and domesticated forms. Although there has been genetic exchange between domestic and wild pigs, the genomes of domestic pigs show significant signs of selection at genetic ...