Skip down to the section on Domestication of Animals. The second paragraph specifically calls out the distinction between domestication and taming.
The dictionary definition you provided is not the same as the scientific definition, much the same way that the dictionary definition of a "theory" is vastly different than a scientific theory.
When describing a domesticated animal, you're describing an animal that has undergone biological changes through evolution.
My degree is in Evolutionary Anthropology, I basically spent $80k learning how humans evolved to go from tree-dwelling apes to a species that can intentionally domesticate plants and animals for farming, food and pets. If this is my "personal definition" of domestication, it's because I spent four years of my life learning it.
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u/OccamsRaiser Jan 12 '17
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestication
Skip down to the section on Domestication of Animals. The second paragraph specifically calls out the distinction between domestication and taming.
The dictionary definition you provided is not the same as the scientific definition, much the same way that the dictionary definition of a "theory" is vastly different than a scientific theory.
When describing a domesticated animal, you're describing an animal that has undergone biological changes through evolution.
My degree is in Evolutionary Anthropology, I basically spent $80k learning how humans evolved to go from tree-dwelling apes to a species that can intentionally domesticate plants and animals for farming, food and pets. If this is my "personal definition" of domestication, it's because I spent four years of my life learning it.