| That's hard to imagine, given the creature's resistance to domestication and its propensity for using its quills to keep humans away. |
| When he needed his alley cat instincts, they were there, under all that domestication, all that soft living, which he takes for granted. |
| Settlements began to encourage the growth of plants such as barley and lentils and the domestication of pigs, sheep and goats. |
| Probably soon after the earliest domestications of cereal grains, humans began to recognize degrees of excellence among the plants in their fields and saved seed from the best for planting new crops. |
| I would not be very much surprised if there are hundreds of independent evolutionary domestications. |
| Dr Bradley was responsible for testing the theory that modern cattle are the result of not one but two separate domestications. |
