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The Impact of Animal Domestication on Human Civilization and Conquest
TLDR Animal domestication, a result of the Neolithic Revolution, has had a significant impact on human civilization and conquest. It involves selectively breeding animals to meet specific criteria and has allowed for the development of useful traits, such as fast growth rate and easy breeding, which have helped humans spread across the earth.
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Animal domestication is a result of the Neolithic Revolution and has had a significant impact on Homo sapiens.
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Animal domestication is the process by which humans have taken in formerly wild species and radically altered their characteristics to the point where they can no longer feed themselves.
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Animal domestication involves selectively breeding animals to meet specific criteria, such as size or wool production, and only a small number of animal species have been successfully domesticated due to specific characteristics and traits that need to be met.
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Animal domestication requires animals with specific traits such as fast growth rate, easy breeding, and the ability to respect a social hierarchy.
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The agricultural revolution, which occurred around 10,500 years ago, led to the domestication of animals such as dogs, pigs, sheep, and cattle, and played a significant role in human civilization and conquest.
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Over the last thousand years, only one substantial animal has been added to the list of domesticated animals, which is the reindeer.
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Certain traits, such as floppy ears, smaller brain size, curly hair, and a sharp sense of sight and hearing, are linked to the genes that lead to domestication and can be observed in domesticated animals like dogs.
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Dogs descended from wolves and started to undergo morphological changes around 15,000 years ago, and the domestication of dogs predates the advent of agriculture, with hunter-gatherers and dogs having a symbiotic hunting relationship.
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The domestication of animals was initially driven by their usefulness for work, such as hunting, pulling sledges and plows, and transporting goods, as well as for food supplies like milk and meat.
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The domestication of camels allowed for the agricultural revolution to spread through trade routes, and domestication in general helped humans spread across the earth.
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The domestication of animals in Eurasia led to the development of resistance and immunity to epidemic diseases, which wiped out the North American New World populations when Europeans arrived.
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