domestication
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The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals.
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The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization.
Ten thousand years ago, when man the nomad took root in one place, he brought animals with him into human service. But domestication was to be his fate too, as he fell under architecturally reinforced female control.
Domestication involved the initiation of production, vastly increased divisions of labor, and the completed foundations of social stratification. This amounted to an epochal mutation both in the character of human existence and its development, clouding the latter with ever more violence and work.
Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.
Overtime, hatchery fish tend to show signs of domestication and these traits adapted to the hatchery environment can make it more difficult to survive in the wild.
WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication.