Domestication

The Columbian Exchange acknowledges that one of the most significant events in history started in 1492 with the discovery of new western lands. The Columbian Exchange consisted of cultural and market trades of goods and people. The trades consisted of many items but most importantly the trade of livestock and crops between America and European countries became the largest advancement towards modern day society. America has gained more knowledge, now having access to farming, they took advantage…

Jared Diamond went to New Guinea to originally research birds that lived there. Along his travels he met a man named Yali who he spent some time talking to, who then asked Jared the question Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own? Jared at the time had no answer to Yali’s question, so he decided to do research on the question and wrote a book about it. His theory to Yali’s question was it’s not the…

Disagreement on Staying Put Hunting and gathering was the basic life skills of early humankind. These skills were co-dependent on the aspect of mobility and nomadicity. Our ancestors, hunters and gathers, followed wherever the animals went. Soon they created civilization to make everything convenient and accessible. This investment and innovation lead society and human evolution. In Scott Russell Sanders’s essay. “Staying put”, he argue that to obtain global knowledge, one must obtain his or…

It is impossible to overestimate the importance of changes brought by the shift from Paleolithic to Neolithic era. The changes influenced not only the economic sector through the conversion from hunting prey and gathering food to farming plants and domesticating animals. It affected almost all of the spheres of human life including social organization and culture. The changes introduced were due to the economic factor that changing people’s core activities largely influenced their worldview,…

2) a,b : This passage is taken from "What is Enlightenment", by Immanuel Kant, from the first page of the essay. Kant is criticizing the over dependence of a grown up individual for nurturing and caretaking and possibly resisting the responsibilities brought to him. He says these deficiencies are caused by laziness and cowardice. Kant states that enlightenment is a man freeing himself from self-imposed nonage. He moves on explaining the reasons why this nonage takes place, and then moves on…

In or Out: Dogs have followed mankind for thousands of years, dating back to early hunter- gatherers (Dogs that Changed the World, 2009). Dogs have become a vital part of many families, with households all over the globe owning at least one dog. As civilization progresses, the care of domesticated animals has changed with how humans live. One ways that life has changed for dogs is that most them now live indoors with their owners. Although it has become increasing common for dogs to live…

underway. This evidence is directly representative of a prey pathway where a species in originally hunted, then undergoes heard management and then later turns to full domestication. The domestication of Zebu (Bos indicus) happens roughly around the same time as the domestication of taurine. Zebu cattle domestication happened exclusively within the northern part of the Indian subcontinent (Chen, 2009) Zebus are humped cattle, found only in the tropical regions of the Indian…

the millennia…”, one can see the inspiration chickens played on early life (Lawler and Alder. For example, in ancient Egypt, temples were said to have eggs hanging from the temples. In Kris Hirst’s article The Domestication History of Chickens (Gallus domesticus), Hirst studied the domestication of Chickens to the Americas. According to her research, chickens were unknown to the Americas until before the “…16th-century medieval Spanish colonization (1321-1407 cal C.E.)” (Hirst). Hirst also…

There are many versions of the domestication of the dog can really make an encyclopedia on this subject. Of these the most popular versions it is that the wild dog (was a wolf, a dog or something) came to the camp of the man of the Stone Age with the incentive to consume the remains. Then, as if by osmosis, it was integrated into the lives of these men hunters eventually taking care of their properties. But this logic is so full of faults that can only be accepted as a glorification both of our…

In the article “Consequences and Future of Plant and Animal Domestication”, Jared Diamond, the author, discusses and explains a few very important topics involved with the domestication of plants and animals. First of all, the article starts off by discussing the topic of the origins of domestication around the world. There is no definite place or time of origin, but domestication began when a pair of changes occurred. The pair of changes that appeared was the change in the behavior of humans…