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domestication of animals  

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  • For most of human existence, people lived as seasonally mobile gatherers, hunters, and fishers. A profound change in the human relationship with nature occurred when people established control over the reproduction and evolution of owned populations of other species, which became domesticated plants and animals. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Domestication of Animals]

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