The History Of Animals Being Domesticated

The goat was the first ruminant to be domesticated. A ruminant is an animal that has more than one compartment in the stomach. Goats began arriving in Plymouth in 1623. In A History of Domesticated Animals, goats were a good source for milk, meat, hides, and some

Have you ever played outside with your dog for a while and lay back to consider about how your dog evolved into whom he is today and how he turned into "family?" Well, over the centuries, dogs have evolved a lot! In between that time, they turned into what we call pets. Because of this, the relationship between dogs and humans has changed over thousands of years, wolves evolved to dogs and the wolves soon became pets.

Domestication is a very useful skill that has remained the same for many years. Animals can be used for meat, milk, wool, etc. They are also used as farming tools and transportation. Certain animals much better suited to domestication than others; Jared Diamond calls this the “anna Karenina principle’ (Class Lecture).

Nobody knows exactly when dogs were domesticated there is so many different showings of when dogs were domesticated but the latest would be where it says 32,000 years ago. The domestication of cats and dogs or  any animals come from humans and animals living so close to each other in close quarter communities. Genes during domestication overlaps with the genes from humans, the same kind of genes are for digestion, metabolism, neurological process and cancer according to population genetics. So humans and animals both was domesticated from the same genes. Human and animals are a lot alike. “Biologist Raymond Coppinger has another idea, the wolves domesticated themselves he suspects the process would have begun at the end of the last Ice Age approximately 15,000 years ago” (“What Caused The Domestication Of Wolves”). Coppinger believes in “flight distance” which is a behavioral characteristics that transformed the wild dogs to the modern dog

The domestication of animals by humans is an early example of eugenics. Animals were used for hunting, warning system against predators, and overall companionship. (History of Eugenics) Humans at the time wanted a powerful animal, that was able to protect their owner, and help be able to produce food and clothing Obviously a strong animal does not come from handicapped ancestry, rather it comes from a far more adaptive origin. Early day humans exchanged this idea that the fittest animal comes from the fittest parents. This idea of superior origin was used in animal husbandry (History of Eugenics). For instance, a cattle that could produce twice as much milk and supply a strong hide, would obviously out weigh its less useful

The domestication of plants and animals lead to great change in the development and structuring of communities, as the hunter-gatherer lifestyle was slowly replaced by permanent settlements of farmers and villages. We can see that the communities varied greatly dependent on their local ecology, the resources available, and the time period within which their community was based. The road to agricultural way of life in the MIddle East is characterized by Four distinct stages. It was during the Kebaran period, and Geometric Kebaran in which hunter-gatherers began to utilize the plant and animal resources of the region. Architecture became a prominent feature of the Natufian period, as communities began to transition to village life from

The wolves' habit of hunting in packs has resulted in the development of complex patterns of social behavior. Wolves are gregarious: they not only hunt in packs or groups but live most of their lives with other wolves. Studies in Alaska, Minnesota, Michigan , and parts of Canada show that a family made up of male, female, and pups is the basic pack unit. Other adults are pups of previous years or, more rarely, adults from other packs. Adolescent

After years of selective breeding and taming, the hunters finally came across some wolves that were able to listen to commands and do what they were ordered to do. These wolves did not look like the first ones with which humans came into contact. Their size, coloring, senses and even the length of their coat or swimming ability reflected the environment in which they lived. These environments could have ranged from anything since hunters do not stay in one place for very long. These wolves probably did not reflect their gray ancestors much anymore. The color of their coat could have become brown, black, or even yellow depending on where they were taken. Their size could have been affected, too, depending on how the hunters had used them- they could have shrunken to the size

Pat Shipman has a different focus in her book: The Invaders. She sees homo sapiens as an invasive species. An invasive species is one that rapidly takes over an ecosystem and completely alters the make up as a whole. The ability of humans to control their environment is what separates us above all other species. She points to the domestication of wolves in Europe as the factor that ultimately allowed us to dominate the food chain and possibly push other species, including Neanderthals, toward extinction. Many of these animals included other predators, such as lions, rhinos, saber tooth tigers and cave bears to name a few. These animal populations saw dramatic declines after the arrival of homo sapiens. The domestication of wolves allowed humans to strategically hunt larger and faster game than previously possible. Wolves (or wolf-dogs that have been domesticated)

3. Humans domesticated animal's by learning to get the animals to listen, some of these tactics were feeding them, taking over a heard by concurring the leader to that animal species. There was some qualities or realization that humans had to look for in an animal while domesticating them. Humans had animals domesticated to provide a convenience. They reaped many benefits such as milk clothing meat with protein and fertilizer, it also created a system of having less labor than gathering. some animals were not domesticated because they were not able to be tamed while the ones that were was able to be controlled, they also had muscle power, unlike a pig, does not have muscles power, however, a horse does have muscle power.

The threshold of “Life” describes the topic of evolution as a necessary process that has developed over time. This process has given us proof that our planet has had a past and is awaiting a future. This threshold encompasses the physical composition and development of organisms, and how each aspect of their genetic codes influence what their functions are. Each part of an organism serves a purpose. Over time, their genetic makeup changes and improves in order to help them become better suited for their environments. An example of organismal development can be seen in felines. As humans domesticated cats thousands of years ago, it has been proven that they have undergone many changes to make them more environmentally

Dogs were the first animal, and the only large carnivore, to be domesticated. in both appearance and in both Dogs are not tame wolves, but how they became these unique companions to people is still being debated.

The domesticated cat is one of the most interesting animals there is. It’s widely spread across the entire planet and was recently introduced to Australia. Even though they are so populated and loved around the world for a number of reasons, their origins are ambiguous and hard to see where they really began. This paper will show you how cats have changed over time, in what ways they have changed, where they originated from, etc. I will explain how they went from big cats like lions or tigers to house hold pets that we know and love today.

Historically, there are three major reasons why humans do this; the first is to create a food source. The second reason I to use animals are a work force, whether it be transportation or working on a farm (Wilkins). The final reason is to use them as companions for humans. This being said, there is a difference between domestication and taming. A wild animal can be tamed if it is captured as a baby and raised with a lot of nurturing (Wilkins). But this is a trait and does not mean it is fully domesticated; it could switch back into its “wild instincts” if it is triggered. They can return to the wild, but when they do it is considered a feral species

corn. Other animals, depend largely on eating other vulnerable animals to ensure their survival, which would cost humans to have to catch animals for the animal, making the domestication process slower and less sustaining. Many animals are too finicky about their diet, and only eat certain types of plants or foods that may be harder for humans to retain.