The domestication of the modern house cat can be traced back to more than 10,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent, at the start of the Neolithic era.

现代化宠物猫的驯化可以追溯到一万多年前的新月沃土那里，在新代开始的候。

As domestication has progressed over the years, cats are becoming more sociable and love being with their human companions.

随着驯化的发展，猫变得越来越善于交际，越来越喜欢人类的陪伴。

But, even if we were eating fruit, the fruit we would have gotten back then wouldn't have been much at all like the modern-day fruit that through domestication and cultivation has come to be much bigger and much sweeter.

就算那的人类靠水果过活，那的水果肯定不如现在的水果那样大那样甜，因为现在的水果经历了很长间的筛选与栽培。

But did domestication and the evolutionary split happen at the same time?

但是人类将犬驯化及分化究竟是不是同发生的?

Researchers were interested in understanding how domestication affected canine behavior.

研究人员非常想了解驯化对犬类行为的影响。

All of this helps to underscore just how recently cat domestication took place.

所有这些都有助于强调猫的驯化是最近发生的。

Let's face it, domestication has its appendages.

实话实说豢养自有用途。

The domestication of animals allowed people to raise and use animals for food and work.

动物的驯化使人们能够饲养使用动物作为食物工作。

In terms of domestication, responsible pet ownership is of course vital.

在驯养方面，负责任地饲养宠物当然至关重要。

They carried with them diseases like measles, influenza, and smallpox that their people had gradually acquired genetic resistance to over thousands of years of dense civilization, agriculture, and livestock domestication.

他们携带了麻疹、流花等疾病，他们的人民在数千年的密集文明、农业牲畜驯化中逐渐获得了对这些疾病的遗传抵抗力。

The earliest biological transformation—domestication—produced what was hitherto the biggest change in how humans lived their lives. This allowed new densities of settlement and new forms of social organisation: the market, the city, the state.

最早的生物转化——驯化，对人类生活方式产生了迄今为止最大的变化。这让更高密度的群居生活全新的社会结构——市场、城市、国家——变得可能。

Cats like these must live much in the same way as we imagine cats must have lived right at the beginning of domestication, when cats were first beginning to associate themselves with man.

这样的猫的生存方式差不多跟刚被驯化期的猫猫们一样，也就是当猫与人类开始建立联系的候。

Researchers said ancient goose bones collected from a 7,000-year-old rice-farming village in east China's Zhejiang province indicated that domestication dates back to the 5th millennium B.C. in the Neolithic Period.

研究人员表示，从中国东部浙江省一个有 7000 年历史的水稻种植村收集的古代鹅骨表明，驯化可以追溯到公元前 5 千年的新代。

Well, there's no reason that domestication couldn't have happened twice in two separate places with two separate cat species when people started farming grain.

当人们开始耕种谷物，没理由驯化不能发生在两个不同的地方不同种类的猫上。

At the same time we suddenly get these horoscope columns appearing which I see as a kind of domestication of astrology.

然而，同一间，这些星座运势的专栏突然出现了，在我看来这是星象学的一种通俗化。

Domestication has puppified dogs, fluffified sheep, and spotified horses — but there's a less obvious physical change that virtually all domesticated animals share: shrunken brains.

驯化使狗变小了、羊有绒了、马有斑了，但几乎所有被驯化的动物都有一个不太明显的身体变化：大脑缩小了。

But with the rise of the domestication of animals and agriculture, humans began to settle down in fixed locations for long periods of time.

但随着动物被驯化农业的兴起，人类开始在固定的地方长间定居。

If true, it means that animal domestication didn't originate solely in the Fertile Crescent of Mesopotamia, as many of us learned in history class.

如果属实，那就意味着动物驯养并非像我们大多数人从历史课上学到的那样，仅仅起源于美索不达米亚的新月沃土。

January and February seem like an ancient era-the BC (before coronavirus) to the new AD (after domestication).

一月二月仿佛是一个古老的纪元——公元前（冠状病毒前）到新的公元（居家后）。

A world that's been shaped by massive influences like conversion of land to agriculture, extinctions, domestications, movement of species across continent.

这个世界中有着大量的影响，如：把土地转换为农地、绝种、驯养、横越大陆的物种移动。