domestication
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Domestication syndrome - anatomical and morphological changes such as curly tails, floppy ears, depigmentation, smaller brains and reduced facial skeletons - are commonly cited as some of the most salient traits, the study says.
From BBC • Nov. 20, 2025
But the new report has come up with a surprising twist on the story: Domestication happened twice, on different lineages of the wild grapes.
From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2023
Domestication, Diamond says, also caused a precipitous decline in biodiversity, and a rise in social inequality and warfare among humans.
From Scientific American • Dec. 8, 2022
Domestication is an ancient technology that played a critical role in our evolution as humans, on par with the development of language or the cultivation of fire.
From Salon • Sep. 11, 2022
In 1867, nearly a decade after the publication of Origin, he began to complete a new manuscript, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, in which he would fully explicate this view of inheritance.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing domestication
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