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Domestication: the process of hereditary reorganization of wild animals and plants into domestic and cultivated forms according to the interests of people [1].
by nologic01 3y ago
Domestication: the process of hereditary reorganization of wild animals and plants into domestic and cultivated forms according to the interests of people [1].
Using this word in the title is clearly not reflecting the nature of what might be happening. The correct term would probably be neoteny [2] or juvenilization
[1] Britannica and every other credible reference on the English language out there
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoteny https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoteny
- felideon 3y agoInteresting concept, but the article is referring to self-domestication[1]: > Yet he and evolutionary anthropologist Brian Hare of Duke University have long held that self-domestication—a phenomenon where wild animals develop traits that are similar to domesticated animals [...]. "Elephants may be self-domesticating" would sound odd to the general reader. Indeed the paper referenced[2] is titled "Elephants as an animal model for self-domestication". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-domestication https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-domestication [2] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2208607120 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2208607120