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The evolutionary process by which a population of plants or animals becomes genetically adapted, over generations, to life alongside humans and to human-controlled breeding and environments. Darwin's 1868 The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication gathered the first systematic account of how selection under human care reshapes body form, behaviour, and reproduction, and later work grouped the recurring changes as the domestication syndrome; Zeder's 2015 Core questions in domestication research reframed the process as a long coevolutionary relationship studied across archaeology, genetics, and ecology. The referent is a heritable change in a living lineage measured across generations, not a household getting used to a gadget or a translator smoothing a foreign text.[1][2]
The process by which a household takes an unfamiliar technology and gradually fits it into its routines, spaces, and relationships until the device feels ordinary and its own. Silverstone, Hirsch, and Morley's 1992 chapter in Consuming Technologies introduced this meaning, describing how a device is acquired, given a place in the home, folded into daily use, and turned into something the family displays and talks about; Haddon's 2006 The Contribution of Domestication Research to In-Home Computing and Media Consumption reviewed how the framework was applied to computers and media. The referent is the social taming of an object by the people who use it, studied through interviews and observation, not a genetic change in a species or a strategy for translating a book.[3][4]
A translation strategy that makes a foreign text read fluently in the target language by conforming it to that culture's norms and expectations, so the reader barely notices it is a translation. Venuti's 1995 The Translator's Invisibility coined this meaning of the word and set it against foreignization, the opposite choice to preserve the strangeness of the source; Venuti traced the debate back to Schleiermacher's 1813 lecture on the two paths open to a translator, moving the author toward the reader or the reader toward the author. The referent is a deliberate choice in rendering a text, judged by how the finished translation reads, not a biological adaptation of a species or a family's uptake of a device.[5]
In archaeobotany, domestication refers to the set of traits, such as non-shattering seed heads and larger grains, that distinguishes domesticated crops from wild ancestors. This meaning comes from Fuller (2007) in Annals of Botany.[6]
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