Summary Of Domestication By Jared Diamond

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The article written by Jared Diamond discusses the issues related to the domestication of plants and animals and provides specific features of domestication tendencies in different regions. Plant and animal domestication have always been very important for the development of households in many countries, however, it requires wise and conscious decision to make the process beneficial for both humans and animals or plants. First of all, the author states that hunter–gatherer behavior changed at the end of the Pleistocene being evoked by climate changes. Evolution has entered a new phase of its development and resulted in global changes in plants and animals world. However, domestication has faced a lot of problems because a lot of plant and

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