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Aurochs[1] were large wild cattle that went extinct. The meek domesticated chicken on the other hand has done extraordinarily well, evolutionarily speaking. T
by narrator 5y ago
Aurochs[1] were large wild cattle that went extinct. The meek domesticated chicken on the other hand has done extraordinarily well, evolutionarily speaking. The same goes for corn, which couldn't survive in its current state without human cultivation. If rhinos and other threatened species were somehow domesticated to be used for food or leather, like cattle, we'd probably have a lot more of them around.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurochs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurochs
- snet0 5y agoI am not sure that the lens of what you label "evolutionary success" is useful in any way. Would you rather a billion humans in Elysium or a trillion humans in Hades?
- chrisco255 5y agoThe big question: did we cultivate agriculture or did agriculture cultivate us? There wouldn't be 7 billion humans without industrial agriculture. You wouldn't exist. I wouldn't exist.
- narrator 5y agoAnts have a symbiotic fungus in their gut that they use to digest food. We have corn that we use to digest sunlight. Chickens that could not survive on their own now are the way we can turn carbohydrates into protein. Computers turn electricity into cognition. We will probably take chickens and corn with us to other planets.