domesticated

The hybrid lager yeast was domesticated hundreds of years ago and has since been optimized for brewing under cold conditions.

As scenes of protesters storming her official residence and looting everything from velvet chairs to domesticated animals were broadcast around the world, Mr Arefin was witnessing something else.

“It’s definitely a domesticated rabbit. Whether it was cared for as a pet or kept as an agricultural animal or a novelty, it’s hard to say. The animal was very grumpy about handling.”

The researchers believe that this change was because a Bronze Age people called the Sintashta had domesticated their local horse and begun to use these animals to help them dramatically expand their territory.

"This shows that yaks were domesticated and milked in Mongolia much earlier than previously assumed," notes Wilkin.