The word 'domesticate' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a verb meaning 'to tame and make fit for living in a human environment', and is commonly used in the context of animals. Example sentence: "Humans have been domesticating animals, such as dogs, for thousands of years."
If this notion turns out to be true, it means that we didn't domesticate wolves — they domesticated themselves.
They concluded that one of the earliest societies to domesticate the ancestors of modern domestic horses (Equus caballus) was the Botai Culture of Kazakhstan on the Eurasian Steppe about 3500 bce (5500 bp).
It was a fitting metaphor for the site's attempts to domesticate the still-wild internet, and typical of its low-budget, user-generated early content.
That now seems much harder to achieve.Try to domesticate itBut how to lure Hamas into peaceful politics?
Surprising to some, but rather intuitive to others: many women already tackle yeast infections of Candida albicans by applying yogurt containing live cultures of Lactobacillus acidophilus directly to the vagina.But humanity could do much more to domesticate bacteria.
Stocking densities, water quality, breeding conditions, animal behaviour, health and precise nutritional requirements have all to be worked out in detail to domesticate wild fish such as the salmon, sea bass, flounder, halibut, sole, hake, haddock and sea bream.
The aboriginal Europeans did not, it seems, have the wit to domesticate cattle.
Historians think people in southern China were the first in the world to domesticate wild boars, 10,000 years ago.For centuries sacrificial pigs—and the eating of pork featured prominently in all forms of commemoration and festivity.
Even modest experiments in geoengineering, according to this logic, are the beginnings of a slippery slope, one that will engender a false sense of security and domesticate an idea that should have always remained outrageous.Yet caving in to this opposition would raise, rather than reduce, the dangers to the planet.
ON FEBRUARY 19th cinemas in China will begin showing "Wolf Totem", a film based on a Chinese novel critiquing man's impulse to tame nature, in which a young man from Beijing attempts to domesticate a wolf.
Mrs Kraft could go ahead anyway, hoping that governing in NRW would domesticate the Left Party, readying it for a possible coalition at national level in 2013.In this section Now what?
