Domestication

(noun.) accommodation to domestic life; 'her explorer husband resisted all her attempts at domestication'.

(noun.) adaptation to intimate association with human beings.

杰西整理

• But this instinct retained by our chickens has become useless under domestication, for the mother-hen has almost lost by disuse the power of flight. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Some authors believe that long-continued domestication eliminates this strong tendency to sterility in species. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• This, in fact, is the great bar to the domestication of animals. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Under domestication, it may truly be said that the whole organisation becomes in some degree plastic. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• There is no reason why the principles which have acted so efficiently under domestication should not have acted under nature. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Under domestication monstrosities sometimes occur which resemble normal structures in widely different animals. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• From these considerations, I shall devote the first chapter of this abstract to variation under domestication. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• If we turn to varieties, produced, or supposed to have been produced, under domestication, we are still involved in some doubt. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

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