domestication

Example Sentences

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Except for a few deliberate crosses, researchers have found little evidence of genetic mixing after domestication established separate lineages.

From Science Daily

The new evidence shows cat domestication didn't start at the dawn of agriculture - in the Levant.

From BBC

When Brookshire finds it easy to pick up and hold a wild pigeon, the scientist advising her explains that such docility results from millennia of domestication.

From Washington Post

So why would cat domestication correlate with agriculture?

From Salon

I'm a paleoanthropologist who has been researching the effects of domestication.

From Scientific American