domestication

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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

Native to Central Asia, it was introduced into Britain in 1893 as an ornamental plant, but "escaped from domestication".

From BBC

They found the islanders regularly dined on both seafood and land-based animals; they also ate a lot of plants high in carbon-4—such as maize—suggesting they may have been experimenting with plant domestication.

From Science Magazine

Yet what if there is no pattern between which traits correspond with domestication?

From Salon