Sentence examples for was being domesticated from inspiring English sources

At the time rice was being domesticated in China, who were the people living in the Yangtze River region?

They suspect the transfer may have occurred during the Neolithic period when the plant was being domesticated and so far don't see any negative impacts from its presence, i.e., it does not cause grape pimples.

(Around the same time, another electronic marvel was being domesticated: PC's were beginning to appear on desktops).

Today, dozens of mainstream fish are being domesticated and will soon appear at supermarket counters everywhere.

Elsewhere in the Old World the archaeological record for the earliest agriculture is not as well known at this time, but by 8500 8000 bp millet (Setaria italica and Panicum miliaceum) and rice (Oryza sativa) were being domesticated in East Asia.

Field pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L). is being domesticated as a new winter cover crop and biofuel species for the Midwestern United States that can be double-cropped between corn and soybeans.

Wild perennial herbs that are being domesticated using genetic variation already existing in their primary gene pools include Desmanthus illinoensis (Michaux) MacMillan (Graham and Vance 2003) and Thinopyrum intermedium (Host) Barkworth & D.R. Dewey (Wagoner and Schauer 1990).

He's been domesticated to a degree — if the self-promoting poet manqué of "The Cruise" bordered on the cartoonish, the relentlessly energetic commentator of "Up to Speed" crosses over into actual cartoon.

Think shiny wet nose attached to a hairy four-legged, tail-wagging, generally friendly creature that's been domesticated for about 20 thousand years.

The Mato Grosso, he went on, was being transformed into domesticated farmland, much of it dedicated to soybeans.

That's because it means humans are simultaneously domesticating and being domesticated -- humans domesticating other humans to benefit humanity.