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self-domesticate

self-domesticate verb: to undergo self-domestication.

Verb

self-domesticate (third-person singular simple present self-domesticates, present participle self-domesticating, simple past and past participle self-domesticated)

  1. (intransitive) To undergo self-domestication.
    • What exactly is the difference between animals domesticated by humans (e.g. dogs, birds) and self-domesticated animals (e.g. humans, and potentially also bonobos; see Hare, 2017; Hare et al., 2012; Kovalaskas et al. 2021), whose domestication process was triggered organically as a result of...2025, Jamshid Tehrani, Rachel L. Kendal, Jeremy Kendal, editors, Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 721

Forms of self-domesticate

third-person singular presentself-domesticates
present participleself-domesticating
past participleself-domesticated
pastself-domesticated

Questions about self-domesticate

What does self-domesticate mean?
Self-domesticate means to undergo self-domestication.
What part of speech is self-domesticate?
Self-domesticate is a verb.
What is the past tense of self-domesticate?
The past tense of self-domesticate is self-domesticated.

Words near self-domesticate in the dictionary

  1. self-distributed
  2. self-distributes
  3. self-distributing
  4. self-distrust
  5. self-documenting
  6. self-domesticate
  7. self-domesticated
  8. self-domesticates
  9. self-domesticating
  10. self-domestication
  11. self-doubt

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