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The answer DOMESTICATION has 2 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of domestication in various dictionaries:
noun - adaptation to intimate association with human beings
noun - the attribute of having been domesticated
noun - accommodation to domestic life
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If it's wild, you might get to this by train round the top to begin with |
What could make wild cat one so timid? |
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Dec 5 2001 The Times - Cryptic |
Jul 8 2000 Irish Times (Crosaire) |
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the process of bringing animals or plants under human control in order to provide food, power, or company: |
to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses tame. to tame (an animal), especially by generations of breeding, to live in close association with human beings as a pet or work animal and usually creating a dependency so that the animal loses its ability to live in the wild. |
The process of taming an animal and keeping it as a pet or on a farm. |
The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home the action of taming wild animals or breeding plants. |
The act of domesticating, or making a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created. |
accommodation to domestic life |
adaptation to intimate association with human beings |
the attribute of having been domesticated |
Domestication description |
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Domestication is a sustained multi-generational relationship in which one group of organisms assumes a significant degree of influence over the reproduction and care of another group to secure a more predictable supply of resources from that second group. Charles Darwin recognized the small number of traits that made domestic species different from their wild ancestors. He was also the first to recognize the difference between conscious selective breeding in which humans directly select for desirable traits, and unconscious selection where traits evolve as a by-product of natural selection or from selection on other traits. There is a genetic difference between domestic and wild populations. There is also such a difference between the domestication traits that researchers believe to have been essential at the early stages of domestication, and the improvement traits that have appeared since the split between wild and domestic populations. Domestication traits are generally fixed withi |