Domestication

humans, but upon a closer look, it is really a comparison of a naturally domestic animal and an animal that needs to be domesticated. While chickens have evolved to exhibit less aggressive and more domestic behaviors, Paul D suffers the process of domestication. As punishment for running away, schoolteacher forces Paul D to wear an iron bit in his mouth, a situation unnatural to all humans, and sells him to an equally cruel man, Brandywine. While the bit strips Paul…

The article, “The Genetic Architecture of Domestication in Animals” by Dominic Wright talks about the diversity in domesticated animals. The contrast between domesticated animals and their wild counterparts are their genetic makeup. The genes have changed over the years due to evolution, adaptation, and inbreeding. The author explores the question if the clusters in the genome represent the pleiotropic effects or if the clusters are actually linked clusters. Dominic Wright states that the…

Midterm Prompts 2-5 2) It is stated in “The Domestication of the Savage Male” that the division of labor exists to force this idea of mutual dependence among sexes. The male figure supplies protection and works for the family, whereas a woman takes care of the children, cooks, and cleans. Without the man, the woman would not fend for herself as successfully, and without the woman, the man would have no children, and he would have to distribute his time equally between work, cooking, cleaning,…

new introductions to Italian cuisine. Rice has a long history of domestication in Asia and was not brought to Italy for several thousand years after being domesticated (P. Huang et al. 2012, X. Huang et al. 2012). Despite its foreign origins, I argue that the way rice and risotto have developed in Italy has given them unique traits that make them traditional Italian foods. In this paper, I will go over the origins and domestication of rice, and its introduction to Italy, outlining various…

I consider an argument for the conclusion that it is morally permissible to eat humanely farmed meat. This argument is based on Michael Pollan’s argument in the article, “An Animal’s Place”. I will offer an objection to Pollan’s premise that domestication is a natural product of evolution. Then, I will consider a reply to my objection. As a result of this analysis, I hold that Pollan’s argument and thus the proposed argument for the conclusion that it is morally permissible to eat humanely…

The Egyptian people of the Predynastic period show that even before domestication, mankind was familiar with these animals. Archaeologists unearthed wild cat remains that were consciously put into human graves in Predynastic sites such as al-Badari and Abydos (CITE). In the eleventh Dynasty, there was a painting found at Koptos, Egypt that depicted a cat sitting behind the feet of a woman; this activity and depiction suggest that the woman had some kind of protection and control over the cat. By…

Charles Darwin, in On the Origin of Species, explains his theory of natural selection and its power to shape the evolution of species with help from the example of how species are shaped through domestication, or rather, artificial selection. With the example of domestication, however, there is a potential obstacle as to the validity his theory. Fleeming Jenkin presents this obstacle by saying Darwin’s theory “rests on the assumption that natural selection can do slowly what man’s selection does…

also discovered writing which led to a form of communication and roles began to change. Just about all of these changes can be tied back in some way to the domestication of plants and animals. When humans domesticated plants and animals it allowed them to no longer have to follow around their food and water sources. Before domestication, if a clan hunts antelope and the herds have grown so that there are no longer any plants left to eat, they…

theory, but concurrently, scientists and historians believe that he left out other major contributing factors that led the Spaniards to success. Although others may disagree, Diamond’s theory is most effective when focused on Europeans’ animal domestication, specifically their use of horses…

species in the invaded region, or their evolution of “domestication.” This domestication, or human commensalism, develops as a species continues to breed in a human-occupied territory (Brown et al. 2013). For insects requiring a vertebrate as a blood-rich source, most often an evolution in preference for humans will occur. As humans have become a prominent blood-source, many major insect vectors of human diseases have undergone this domestication and have become…