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3 - Animals - Coggle Diagram
3 - Animals
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Food
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Livestock
Transhumanance in Austria, Greece and Italy
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Herding with dogs
Selective breeding and neotenisation
- retains hunting drive
- removes need to kill
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Wolves + dogs
Earliest accepted evidence in the form of a 3-5 month old puppy skeleton. Found buried with an old woman in Israel 13,500BP.
DNA evidence (mtDNA, studied at UCLA) suggests a genetic divide between wolves and dogs starting 100,000BP.
Analysis of siberian wolf bone by Boston suggests the divide to be at 27-40,000BP.
Impacts
'Symbolic explosion' of terratorial marking 40-50,000BP.
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Reliance on dogs
- to hear and warn of the approach of potential threats
- to smell prey
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20% reduction in areas of the brain relating to cognition and learning in dogs, since domestication