domestication

How To Use domestication In A Sentence

• Of particular significance to ancient Arabia was the domestication of the dromedary (one-humped camel) in the southern part of the peninsula between 3000 and 2500 B.C.E.
• The hydrophobia has come about as the result of the domestication of cats. Times, Sunday Times
• He said low genetic diversity is a natural part of the domestication process and that Dukha reindeer are selected for traits such as passiveness and strong backs that support saddles and riders.
• Other rodents might also be suited to domestication; for instance, the potentially tamable, clean-living species of South American fields and woodlands - agouti, capybara, hutia, mare, coypu, pace, and vizcacha. Chapter 3
• A foreign nonprofit corporation may become a domestic business corporation if the domestication and conversion is permitted by the organic law of the foreign nonprofit corporation.
• In the Ohio Valley, a general pattern has been documented of intensification of the gathering of plant species leading to their management and eventual domestication in the context of gardens.
• Familiarity alone prevents our seeing how universally and largely the minds of our domestic animals have been modified by domestication.
• Uncertainties in history, archeology, biogeography, anthropology and biosystematics obscure the dates and places of the first domestication of cultivated crops.
• These patterns of variation are also found for the wolf and across the Carnivora, suggesting that they existed before the domestication of dogs and are not a result of selective breeding. "Intraspecific macroevolution" within domestic dog breeds - The Panda's Thumb
• He reverses the usual humancentric perspective, asking what domestication has meant to the apple tree, the potato, and the tulip.