domesticate

My wife is convinced it will take at least two more generations to domesticate me...

Insects, with their small size and short lifespans, should be even easier to domesticate, once we set our minds to it.

That behavior seems in line with the kind of behavior that caused us to domesticate cats in the first place.

Maybe the most violent countries have the least domesticated humans?

Tigers and especially lions are somewhat easy, not to domesticate per se but to befriend.

Easy to domesticate, produces delicious meat at a high yield... and Bacon.

And you can only domesticate a dog by hacking its pack instinct to make it follow you instead of another dog anyway.

I feel like there's a common thread in many conversations I have these days, which can be described well by "We've tried to domesticate genius, and lost it.

When people domesticate animals to be pets infantile traits become prevalent in mature specimens.

We've tried to domesticate genius, and lost it:It has been pointed out that we no longer have infant and child prodigies, or that at least they are now much rarer than before.

It's true now, it was true at the dawn of animal husbandry: it's more expensive to capture and domesticate wild animals than do the hunter-gatherer thing.

They're harder to domesticate because they've known freedom, and they've adapted to living in the wild by being smaller and more timid than horses selectively bred for doing work.

First and foremost we should adapt to them and serve them, not them to us. Domestication can only go so far, and ironically as we overly domesticate animals, so we ourselves become domesticated and consumed without even knowing it.

We could engineer another domesticate biofactory as a spider, but that seems likely to also be incredibly labor intensive.

Additionally there's evidence that man didn't initially domesticate dogs.

But they're an evolutionary success story from a Darwinian perspective: by being easy to domesticate by early tribes and delicious, they've proliferated far beyond anything which would've happened un-aided by humans.