domestication
n.the process of training wild animals to live with humans and be useful to them. It can also mean making something more common or less wild in nature.
n.the process of taming and adapting wild animals for a human environment, or the act of making something more familiar and less exotic. Often used in biological or sociological contexts to describe the transition from a wild to a domestic state.
“The domestication of horses changed how people traveled.”
“Archaeologists study the domestication of plants to understand how early societies developed stable food supplies.”
“The domestication of the grey wolf into the modern dog represents one of the most significant symbiotic relationships in human history, fundamentally altering both our social structures and our genetic landscapes.”
“They followed a very different evolutionary path, yet through domestication, they developed the social abilities needed to understand and cooperate with us.”
“Evidence indicates the wolves were fed, possibly cared for, and may even have been managed or selectively bred long before modern ideas of domestication.”
From domesticate + -ion.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.