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I don't know anything about bisons. Are they domesticated these days? So you would say they would have been eligible for domestication and native Americans fai

• tedunangst 11y ago
  I think you're making much the same mistake Diamond does, assuming that domestication is inevitable, and that if it doesn't happen, somebody "failed".
  • facepalm 11y ago
    Well they failed by becoming subjugated by the European settlers, dying from diseases by the millions. That's what the book is about. I don't see a way to paint that in lovely colors? What about that isn't "failure"? The argument here was that Diamond's theory is wrong because the native Americans could have domesticated the bisons after all. The claim that they are too difficult to tame is dismissed as "crap". Then it seems to me why they were not being domesticated needs another explanation (if the one from Diamond is not good enough). Just random chance?
• soperj 11y ago
  They are farmed. You can buy bison meat at any grocery store here (it's delicious!). So yes.' There are about 200 thousand bison on 2000 farms in Canada alone.