Domestication - Wikipedia The domestication of animals and plants was triggered by the climatic and environmental changes that occurred after the peak of the Last Glacial Maximum and which continue to this present day These changes made obtaining food by hunting and gathering difficult [12] The first animal to be domesticated was the dog at least 15,000 years ago [1] The Younger Dryas 12,900 years ago was a period
domesticate - Oxford Learners Dictionaries Word Origin mid 17th cent : from medieval Latin domesticat-‘domesticated’, from the verb domesticare, from Latin domesticus ‘belonging to the house’, from domus ‘house’
Domesticate - definition of domesticate by The Free Dictionary do·mes·ti·cate (də-mĕs′tĭ-kāt′) tr v do·mes·ti·cat·ed, do·mes·ti·cat·ing, do·mes·ti·cates 1 To cause to feel comfortable at home; make domestic 2 To adopt or make fit for domestic use or life 3 a To train or adapt (an animal or plant) to live in a human environment and be of use to humans b To introduce and accustom (an