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I agree that scale does play into the degree of domestication .
For instance a cultivated clam (and the zooxanthellae inside) raised at a clam farm would be less domesticated
then say an entirely tank raised clam.
What animals and what plants would you say qualifies as a domesticated life form?
I was watching a show about a company called Nexia which spliced a spider gene into a goat and now the goat produces spider web in its milk. (They use the "goaterweb" to make bullet proof vests and such)
Would this relatively new animal ( one year) be considered a Domesticated animal if they had used a wild goat?
Does domestication require that the adaptation be viewable to the naked eye?
How about cultivated clown fish?
these new breeds of clown fish dont recognize anemones as hosts , they don't fight for territory
they have little imunities
and they look about as different from a wild clown as does a Siberian husky does from a timber wolf.
What constitutes true domestication in your view?
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