domestication
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An expansive exhibition focuses on the Japanese warriors—from their rise as masters of warfare to their domestication as part of the civil service and landed gentry—as well as their long cultural afterlife.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026
Together, these results highlight how domestication shaped the modern cat's voice, turning the meow into a flexible communication tool while leaving the purr as a steady marker of individuality.
From Science Daily • Feb. 11, 2026
The research also highlights how difficult it is to identify the earliest stages of dog domestication.
From Science Daily • Jan. 6, 2026
The study's authors also hypothesised that the domestication process is wrongly believed to be initiated by humans, who have captured or selectively bred animals in the past.
From BBC • Nov. 20, 2025
Those wild cereal harvests were precursors to the domestication of the earliest crops, the cereals wheat and barley, in the Fertile Crescent.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing domestication
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