Domestication

not for agriculture, civilizations would not be where they are today. Because of agriculture, civilizations became better, humans became better, and life itself around the world became better. Agriculture was the key to sedentary civilization, domestication of animals led to food supply. Agriculture is the cultivation of animals and plants, and anything else that is a food source. Agricultural Revolution is also the term for New Stone Age and they are huge contributors of why civilizations have…

The Evolution of Dogs Dogs have often been called a man’s best friend. Most people have experienced owning or being around a dog at some point in their lives. Some people had good experiences with a dog or dogs, while others had horrible memories. Whether your experience was good or bad, dogs have been around for thousands of years. According to the article, dogs have lived all over the world and played a huge part in past and present human life. Dogs have been used in all aspects of life.…

1995. The translator’s Invisibility. A history of Translation. London and New York: Routledge). What do you understand by these terms? What are the advantages and disadvantages of such an approach? In translation practice, foreignization and domestication are two important translation strategies that translators need to consider when approaching the linguistic and cultural difference in source texts. However, these two concepts are mutually exclusive. Foreignization aims to maintain as much as…

stay alive. According to historians and scientists, this urge for consumption has since led to major changes in the human race. One such reshaping occurred from 2.5 to 1.9 million years ago with the invention of cooked food. The second was the domestication of the three main cereal grains, wheat, rice, and maize, which happened approximately 10,500 to 5,500 years ago. Each of these alterations to our diet led to paramount shifts in the human race. The first of these dietetic movements, the…

social life of that time began to stabilize after the period of adaptation of the Mesolithic in terms of customs and traditions, and progressively moved away from the nomadic life of the hunter-gatherer. Basically they were dedicated to grazing, domestication of animals, making of fabrics, modeling of ceramics and cultivation of the earth. It was nevertheless a time of revolutionary changes in the ways of life. Some of the most important Neolithic nations appeared in the Middle East and the…

1. Darwin’s theory of natural selection directly applies to the domestication of plants and animals in numerous ways. The first being that natural selection, or the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype is based on the idea that organisms pass genetic mutations onto their offspring that can potentially increase the success of reproduction and survival for future generations. Over time these continual genetic mutations can result in a new species…

In “Hunting The Great Stag”, the rise in popularity of animal domestication can be seen through the large central animal in the picture. We can see that the size difference between the animal and the humans is very large. This suggests that animals were a very prized part of neolithic culture because they were a source…

powers, and no special building used for religious beliefs. In today’s society we have evolved into farmers which agriculture and farming came in slowly. Farming is defined as “the activity or business of growing crops and raising livestock”. Domestication of both animals and plants happen during the evolution of hunter-gatherers in the beginning to farming in the end. In the development of both these types of techniques to get resources we also developed a feel of human civilization. From…

It has also led to casting and making things out of metal. The building of great cities, creation of art, and writing. Mathematics, and forms of government, and social organizations, all have their roots brought about from Plant, and animal domestication, and the trade and social development that it caused. The downside is that it has a decrease in public health, because of a decrease in nutritious diet. There is more stress on the individual, due to an increase work load. There is also an…

why some societies are not as advanced as others. This question has never really entered my mind until I watched this documentary and learned more about Jared’s well thought out theories. In this episode, hunter-gathering, farming, and animal domestication are all examined in order to fully grasp the advancement of cultures. According to Jared Diamond, the gap in human societies can be explained by analyzing the differences in geography. The first time I heard this…