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Domestication is the process of adapting wild plants and animals for human use. Domestic species are raised for food, work, clothing, medicine, and many other uses. Domesticated plants and animals must be raised and cared for by humans. Domesticated species are not wild.
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.
Domestication is the process of adapting wild plants and animals for human use. Domestic species are raised for food, work, clothing, medicine, and many other uses.
Farmed Animals. Cattle (Bos taurus), goats (Capra hircus), sheep (Ovis aries), and pigs (Sus domesticus) all have their origins as farmed animals in the so-called Fertile Crescent, a region covering eastern Turkey, Iraq, and southwestern Iran. This region kick-started the Neolithic Revolution.
Adapting wild plants and animals for people to use is called domestication. Hunter-gatherers began to domesticate animals and change the natural environment to grow more food even before settled farming became widespread.
They developed irrigation methods and domesticated animals to supplement farming. At the same time, populations around the world, from the Andes mountain dwellers to the river-centric villages in China and Mongolia, were developing local staple crops like rice, millet, and potatoes.
Artificial selection has long been used in agriculture to produce animals and crops with desirable traits. The meats sold today are the result of the selective breeding of chickens, cattle, sheep, and pigs. Many fruits and vegetables have been improved or even created through artificial selection.
According to Nature, scientists still know “little about cat domestication, and there is active debate over whether the house cat is truly a domestic animal—that is, its behavior and anatomy are clearly distinct from those of wild relatives.”
Adapting wild plants and animals for people to use is called domestication. The first domesticated plant was probably rice or corn. Chinese farmers were cultivating rice as early as 7500 B.C. The first domesticated animals were dogs, which were used for hunting. Sheep and goats were probably domesticated next, and then cattle and pigs.
Her research interests include the domestication plants and animals and the origins of agriculture. Her work has also focused on the social and environmental implications of early agriculture in the ancient Near East, and the development of specialized subsistence economies in early complex societies.