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Did you mean alludes? I looked up elides because it was a word I didn't know, but the definition does not seem to match the context.
by novia 10y ago
Did you mean alludes? I looked up elides because it was a word I didn't know, but the definition does not seem to match the context.
- em3rgent0rdr 10y agoI think elides works. The article doesn't directly assert that nobles have been domesticating humans, but does comes close to the implying it here: "When humans start treating animals as subordinates, it becomes easier to do the same thing to one another. The first city-states in Mesopotamia were built on this principle of transferring methods of control from creatures to human beings...Scribes used the same categories to describe captives and temple workers as they used for state-owned cattle."
- danieltillett 10y agoI meant elide :) The article skips over this conclusion while getting rather close. Nobody has really looked at this hypothesis in any depth because of the political consequences of finding it is true.
- novia 10y agoI'll start researching it if I see the proletariat developing floppy ears and other cute features :)
- danieltillett 10y agoIt is not just the proles that get domesticated, it is the nobles too. Since in even the most ridged societies there is movement across classes, if the peasants become domesticated then the same genes will eventually end up in the nobles.