Anthropologists once thought that domestication would happen almost automatically once people gained sufficient knowledge of plants and animals and their reproductive habits to figure out how to make domestication work.They now know that

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Anthropologists now understand that knowledge of plants and animals alone is not sufficient for domestication to occur. Foragers, who have extensive knowledge of plants and animals, did not domesticate animals until they encountered external factors such as climate change or a changing social structure that made domestication advantageous. Therefore, some other trigger must be present for domestication to start and be sustained.

Anthropologists Once Thought That Domestication Would Happen Almost Automatically Once