How to pronounce “domestication” in English

So domestication has largely been about artificially selecting for certain traits, essentially like laying eggs, having a larger breast or more meat,

Horse domestication starts here.

So in a sense domestication is really about humans being able to get animal protein without having to hunt for it.

in the domestication syndrome.

about this process of domestication.

The first domestication-- 10,000 years ago, the Neolithic period, which I mentioned before.

the actual domestication of animals.

But the domestication of plants and animals is an example of entanglement.

And this process of domestication has been going on for a long time.

to start a full-blown silver fox domestication experiment.

and all the stuff in the domestication syndrome.

It's the first of the domestication syndrome traits to appear in the foxes, always keeping in mind that the only thing they use to determine

is the first of the domestication syndrome traits to appear.

Because meditation is not an act of domestication.

We have more animals under domestication today than in the last 10,000 years of domestication up until 1960 combined-- huge number

known about what's called domestication syndrome is known because of a 40-year experiment with foxes done in Russia, where they selected them only

So the idea was the domestication of plants and animals meant that you could get more resources out of a given area of land, which

But the key idea was that the domestication of plants and animals was the trigger that allowed people

But the idea that the domestication of plants and animals was key to settled life has remained a very, very important idea.

and that itself then leads to the domestication of cattle later on.

The first great leap forward was the domestication of the horse.

And essentially, domestication is actually quite a fascinating The wild jungle fowl lays about one egg a month.

Earliest domestication of cat, or dog, or beer, or whatever, right?

and also from reading Darwin's famous book about domestication-- he knew that many domesticated animals share a whole suite of characteristics.

And so he hypothesized that the earliest stages of all animal domestication events involved our ancestors choosing the calmest, tamest,

Now they were seeing yet another trait in the domestication syndrome, not only curly tails, but floppy ears-- all as the result of selection on behavior and behavior alone.

Yet another one of the traits in the domestication syndrome-- it's typical for domesticated species to have longer reproductive periods than their wild ancestors.

words and as Darwin tells us the key feature of domestication is you control the reproduction of the

There's a beginning to being moved towards the domestication of plants and animals, but that hasn't yet occurred here at around 9,000 BC.

So as we go through this process of rapid domestication, the other thing that's happened is we've been able to create wealth on an absolutely

And the other thing that's happened in this process of domestication is nature-- this big, tough, survival of the fittest, select the people who are going to survive--

she has led what's come to be known as the silver fox domestication experiment.

Did they start showing lower stress hormone levels or other characteristics of domestication syndrome?

But what Lyudmila wanted to know with just how far down the path of domestication these animals had come, and Pushinka told her that.

or are they localized in sort of hotspots of genetic change associated with domestication?

One of the things about the domestication of animals is that it puts us in very close contact with animals.

But we see evidence of brucellosis entering the human skeletal record with the domestication

It began with the domestication of animals and farming.

Other aspects of domestication include a lot of sex outside the breeding season that does not

And this experiment that we're going to talk about is the gold standard for understanding how domestication comes about.

Wild foxes don't have curly tails, but curly tails are a classic part of the domestication syndrome.

They were also beginning to see all sorts of strange things in their coat coloration-- another trait in the domestication syndrome.

of the environment, use of resources, particularly the domestication of plants and animals.

There were other ancillary ideas, such that the collection of the domestication of plants and animals led to the creation of a surplus, which

Now the very important aspect about this is that this is a society which does not yet have full plants and animal domestication.

And what's fascinating is that recent genetic work on wheat has shown that the first domestication of Einkorn wheat

led to the need for more intensive production, and then ultimately to the domestication of wheat, and of course, sheep, and goat, and the full range

The other thing is that unlike livestock, bees are adaptable without domestication.

But we see that, even through hundreds or thousands of years of domestication, these animals still have the same behaviors, the same desires.