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Domestication is a multi-generational mutualistic relationship in which an animal species, such as humans or leafcutter ants, takes over control and care...

Domestication and foreignization are strategies in translation, regarding the degree to which translators make a text conform to the target culture (the...

domestication of the dog was the process which led to the domestic dog. This included the dog's genetic divergence from the wolf, its domestication,...

De novo domestication is a process where new species are genetically altered to meet human needs, such as agriculture or companionship. It is performed...

gives a list of domesticated animals, also including a list of animals which are or may be currently undergoing the process of domestication and animals that...

small number of traits that made domesticated species different from their wild ancestors. He was also the first to recognize the difference between conscious...

A domesticated quail is a domestic form of the quail, a collective name which refers to a group of several small species of fowl. Thousands of years of...

domesticus), also called swine (pl.: swine) or hog, is an omnivorous, domesticated, even-toed, hoofed mammal. It is named the domestic pig when distinguishing...

goes back to between 11,000 and 9,000 BC, and the domestication of the wild mouflon in ancient Mesopotamia. Sheep are among the first animals to have been...

Domestication syndrome refers to two sets of phenotypic traits that are common to either domesticated plants or domesticated animals. Domesticated animals...

This is a list of plants that have been domesticated by humans. The list includes individual plant species identified by their common names as well as...

The most common species of domesticated hedgehog is the four-toed hedgehog (Atelerix albiventris). The Algerian hedgehog (Atelerix algirus) is a separate...

How and when horses became domesticated has been disputed. Although horses appeared in Paleolithic cave art as early as 30,000 BC, these were wild horses...

The domesticated silver fox (Vulpes vulpes forma amicus) is a form of the silver fox that has been to some extent domesticated under laboratory conditions...

region gave rise to modern domestic cat breeds. Scientists believed that it was not just one incident that led to the domesticated cat but multiple independent...

known as the common fig, is one of the earliest plants to have ever undergone domestication. Ficus carica played many important roles in history and...

microorganisms have been domesticated by humans for use in food production, medicine, and research. The following is a list of domesticated fungi and microorganisms:...

extinction; the latter, though rare, can be found in the wild. Domesticated chinchillas are thought to be of the C. lanigera species. Chinchillas formerly occupied...

Cattle (Bos taurus) are large, domesticated, bovid ungulates widely kept as livestock. They are prominent modern members of the subfamily Bovinae and the...

relative. The dog was the first species to be domesticated by humans. Experts estimate that hunter-gatherers domesticated dogs more than 15,000 years ago, which...