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self-domesticated

self-domesticated is the simple past and past participle of self-domesticate.

Meaning of self-domesticate

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

Questions about self-domesticated

What is self-domesticated the simple past and past participle of?
Self-domesticated is the simple past and past participle of self-domesticate.

Words near self-domesticated in the dictionary

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

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