For most of their history, the species from which domesticated forms are derived evolved under pressures related to survival and reproduction in the wild.
One important legume, the peanut or groundnut (Arachis hypogaea), a tetraploid annual, was domesticated east of the Andes, probably close to the area in which cassava was domesticated (Kochert et al., 1996).
The island chosen for Napoleon's final exile lends its hermetic isolation to Hansen's novel, in which a defeated, domesticated Bonaparte plays with children and writes his memoirs while his presence intrudes on the local haunt, a Portuguese traitor stranded many years before.
In cases in which animals are domesticated for food, most modern countries are striving for better animal welfare practices that minimize pain and suffering during the killing process with the goal to render an animal unconscious quickly before it is killed.
This phenomenon occurred in the wild ancestor of coconut (Cocos nucifera), in which introgression from domesticated populations led to the disappearance of all genetically pure wild individuals (Ellstrand 2014).
Also, I kind of do want to live in a world in which wolverines have been domesticated.
A bit of research reveals this to be the art of pigeon flying, in which a flock of domesticated pigeons (sometimes as many as 250 or more!) is taught to respond to signals like flagpole waves, find its way home, etc.
While the order of expansion of the median values of the population size estimates appears to reflect the order in which the species were domesticated, the Bayesian 95% HPDs (figure 2 b) of the different populations overlap, and inference of expansion event order is insecure.
In a bouncy, bubble-brained movie with the look of a shelter magazine, they flounce through a domesticated story in which magic is for dealing with menfolk and brooms look all too comfortably at home.
Jean Andrews, in the classic "Peppers: The Domesticated Capsicums" (in which she made the comment above about pepper competitions and being burned at the stake), tracks the spread of peppers by early writers.
