Animal Domestication Research Paper

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Have you ever wondered why some countries have less than you do? Most people didn't choose this lifestyle, it was just geographic luck. Geographic luck is Jared Diamond's theory about everyone's haves and have nots. People all around the world may have more or less than you do, including animals that can provide fur for clothes and blankets and meat can provide food. In some places, they use the animal as something to pull a plow and to move things.

Animal domestication is just as important as plant domestication. The proses of domesticating a plant are important because it can help to grow better, tastier, and nutritional crops. The way they would do that is by taking the best, biggest, tastier crop's seeds and planting it to get that same

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