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“Domestication is a variation of the process of evolution, where the selector has been not just natural forces but human ones, eventually intent on…

— Alexandra Horowitz

“Human beings have been under cultivation longer than we’ve been cultivating anything else. Our cultures domesticate us for obscure purposes, nurturing and encouraging certain…

— Christopher Ryan

“Human nature has been landscaped, replanted, weeded, fertilized, fenced off, seeded, and irrigated as intensively as any garden or seaside golf course. Human beings…

— Christopher Ryan

“This completely changed their way of life. We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us. The word ‘domesticate’ comes from the Latin domus, which…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us. The word ‘domesticate’ comes from the Latin ‘domus’, which means ‘house’. Who’s the one living in…

— Yuval Noah Harari

My father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves.

— Richard Leakey

Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there…

— Jared Diamond

Fiddling with the genetic identities of domesticated plants and animals ever since we had become human. We are the fiddlingest animal the world has…

— Sue Hubbell

“The dog was the first animal domesticated by Homo sapiens, and this occurred before the Agricultural Revolution.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

The first animals to be successfully domesticated were dogs, which were a big help because they would bark all night and fetch thrown sticks,…

— Dave Barry

“In such prototribal societies, individuals who found it harder to play along, to restrain their antisocial impulses, and to conform to the most important…

— Jonathan Haidt

There's no such thing as "just a domestic".

— Patrick Stewart