domestication
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Except for a few deliberate crosses, researchers have found little evidence of genetic mixing after domestication established separate lineages.
From Science Daily
The new evidence shows cat domestication didn't start at the dawn of agriculture - in the Levant.
From BBC
This urban domestication starts with trash, the study's co-author, Raffaela Lesch of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, told Scientific American.
From BBC
And the researchers' digital scans of the skulls that they studied will allow them to answer more questions about the evolutionary driving forces behind domestication.
From BBC
Rendered impotent by domestication, she’ll do anything to influence human events.
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