"Early domestication" refers to the process of humans taming and training wild animals for their own use or benefit at a very early stage in history. Full definition
«All of our evidence for early domestication of corn, beans, and squash come from a total of five caves in Mexico,» he explains. (sciencemag.org)
Finally, the researchers developed a novel statistical method to investigate the genome data for signatures of positive selection in early domestication stages. (sciencedaily.com)
«The gelada case is comparable to what early domestication of dogs might have been like,» study researcher Claudio Sillero, of the University of Oxford, told New Scientist's Bob Holmes. (businessinsider.com)