That's because it means humans are simultaneously domesticating and being domesticated -- humans domesticating other humans to benefit humanity.
The best-fit model, the team reports today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, showed the wild ancestor of domestic horses originating in eastern Eurasia 160,000 years ago and being domesticated in the western part of the Eurasian Steppe around 6000 years ago.
It domesticates, quite literally, what was once seen as a threat.Precisely the fear of being domesticated led many gay activists, at the time of The Economist's cover, to support the idea of marriage equality warily, if at all.
However, because bison have also experienced a population expansion within the last 10 000 years, without being domesticated, it is not possible to attribute the expansions visible in the domestic species solely to the effects of domestication.
I love being domesticated.
Today, dozens of mainstream fish are being domesticated and will soon appear at supermarket counters everywhere.
