domesticating
- present participle of domesticate.
Example Sentences
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"At Titicaca, Andeans accomplished the remarkable achievement of domesticating plants like the potato, leaving behind a nutritious legacy that is still appreciated today," he said.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2023
Humans have a long history of domesticating and crossing wild plants to produce new generations with better flavor and higher yields.
From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2023
To Linklater, this raises the concern that dehorning might be inadvertently domesticating rhinos, because the rhinos that are most wild and can least acclimate to capture would be least likely to survive and breed.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 11, 2023
Second, the process of domesticating wild plants inevitably leads to a substantial decrease in genetic diversity in general.
From Scientific American ● May 4, 2023
But there is a fatal flaw in this reasoning: plant domestication is not a matter of hunter-gatherers’ domesticating a single plant and otherwise carrying on unchanged with their nomadic lifestyle.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
