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self-domesticates

self-domesticates is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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-domesticates

What is self-domesticates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Self-domesticates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of self-domesticate.

Words near self-domesticates in the dictionary

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

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