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It all seems so unfathomable to me. Even plants! Wild almonds will kill you with cyanide. Even domesticated horses are scary as hell -- what would they have bee
by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
It all seems so unfathomable to me. Even plants! Wild almonds will kill you with cyanide. Even domesticated horses are scary as hell -- what would they have been like before that? Domestic goats can kill big men -- my uncle (huge, muscly, outdoorsy blue collar guy) almost got rammed to death by one.
The only instance of donestication I really get are cats.
- ElCapitanMarkla 2y agoAnd even then I think it’s more a case that cats domesticated people
- Grimblewald 2y agoHumans have co-domesticated along side everything else. We are less scary now as well.
- awesomeideas 2y agoAre we? We kill billions/trillions of other beings per year, far more per person than we did 300 ka ago when we came onto the scene.
- 4gotunameagain 2y agoThe powerhungry warmongers are certainly scary, but think of the average contemporary westerner and then imagine the average Spartan.. We are fat, with hunched backs, stiff necks and wearing glasses.
- CRConrad 2y agoAnother Science News article(1), linked from TFA IIRC, says we are: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/gene-facial-development-hints-humans-domesticated-themselves https://www.sciencenews.org/article/gene-facial-development-... ___ (1) Plus another one linked from that: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/how-humans-maybe-domesticated-themselves https://www.sciencenews.org/article/how-humans-maybe-domesti...
- skoocda 2y agoHorses used to be smaller. Przewalski's horse, the closest thing to a pre-domesticated horse, is about 660lb. A modern draft horse is over 2000lb. 50 mya, Eohippus was around 20lb - the size of a fox.
- tuatoru 2y agoThe first domestication was fire. That made the others easier. Also, humans used to cooperate