The word 'domestication' is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used when referring to the process by which wild animals and plants are habituated to living with and benefiting from humans, such as when we breed animals for food or use crop plants to feed our families. For example, "The domestication of animals dates back to thousands of years ago when humans first began to keep animals and crops as a source of food and resources."
The ancestry of Persian and Siamese cats may well be distinct from other domestic breeds, representing a domestication of an Asian wild cat (the ancestor of the Egyptian cat is believed to have come from Africa).
If so, it would be the earliest evidence of plant domestication in the world; however, the oldest indisputably domesticated grain is einkorn from Nevali Çori (Turkey) dating to about 10,500 bp.
"Because they are the same species they are very vulnerable to losing their pure genetics to domesticated chickens," he says, explaining that could not only hinder our study of the bird's domestication but also erode a useful genepool should the domesticated bird fall foul of disease.
This was unlike the domestication of dogs, where a small number of wolves probably domesticated themselves, by cosying up to groups of people and acting as four-legged garbage-disposal units, before being selectively in-bred into the varieties seen today.
Although the exact timing of dog domestication has not been definitively determined, it is clear that the dog was domesticated from the wolf.
But, at the moment, the "domestication" of foreign policy has reached an extreme pitch.
And that, as they describe in Science, is what Dr Thalmann, Dr Wayne and the rest of the team did.In this section Face the facts The company of wolves Aerosniff Thyme to touch ReprintsThey extracted mitochondrial DNA from 18 fossil canids, making sure to include the earliest doglike creatures that show skeletal signs of domestication.
Mr Sullivan's "Blood Horses" is not only about the passion and business of horse-racing, it is also about the history of the horse's domestication, and of the horse in western art and science.
The cultivated plants consumed by all folks except hunter-gatherers have evolved an ambiguous relationship with people, in which they exchange the risk of being eaten by a human for the reproductive security that domestication brings.
Instead, they seem to have been used to store wild barley and wild oats.The period leading up to the domestication of cereals was one of erratic climate change, as the last ice age ended.
Such alterations are not unique to dogs; other domesticated animals such as cats, goats, horses and mice exhibit similar features.This fact had not escaped the notice of Russian geneticist Dmitri Belyaev, whose work with foxes starting in the 1950s yielded perhaps the single greatest contribution to our understanding of domestication.
