self-domesticate

English

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.
    • 2025, Jamshid Tehrani, Rachel L. Kendal, Jeremy Kendal, editors, Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 721:
      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 internal and unguided pressures?
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