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ShareDomestication is a phenomenon whereby a wild biological organism is habituated to survive in the company of human beings.
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Domesticated animals, plants, and other organisms are those whose collective behavior, life cycle, or physiology has been altered as a result of their breeding and living conditions being under human control for multiple generations.
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