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Re:Horses may have been domesticated twice. Only one attempt... by Jeff_Brown on Monday June 17, 2024 @06:54PM (#40712118)
It all seems so unfathomable to me. Even plants! Wild almonds will kill you with cyanide. Even domesticated horses are scary as hell -- what would they have been like before that? Domestic goats can kill big men -- my uncle (huge, muscly, outdoorsy blue collar guy) almost got rammed to death by one.

The only instance of donestication I really get are cats.

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Re:Horses may have been domesticated twice. Only one attempt... by ElCapitanMarkla on Monday June 17, 2024 @10:49PM (#40713616)
And even then I think it’s more a case that cats domesticated people
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Re:Horses may have been domesticated twice. Only one attempt... by Grimblewald on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @08:56AM (#40717281)
Humans have co-domesticated along side everything else. We are less scary now as well.
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Re:Horses may have been domesticated twice. Only one attempt... by awesomeideas on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @03:07PM (#40721042)
Are we? We kill billions/trillions of other beings per year, far more per person than we did 300 ka ago when we came onto the scene.
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Re:Horses may have been domesticated twice. Only one attempt... by 4gotunameagain on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @06:10PM (#40722630)
The powerhungry warmongers are certainly scary, but think of the average contemporary westerner and then imagine the average Spartan..

We are fat, with hunched backs, stiff necks and wearing glasses.

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Re:Horses may have been domesticated twice. Only one attempt... by CRConrad on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @07:38AM (#40727272)
Another Science News article(1), linked from TFA IIRC, says we are: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/gene-facial-development-...

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(1) Plus another one linked from that: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/how-humans-maybe-domesti...

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Re:Horses may have been domesticated twice. Only one attempt... by skoocda on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @09:01PM (#40723690)
Horses used to be smaller.

Przewalski's horse, the closest thing to a pre-domesticated horse, is about 660lb. A modern draft horse is over 2000lb.

50 mya, Eohippus was around 20lb - the size of a fox.

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Re:Horses may have been domesticated twice. Only one attempt... by tuatoru on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @03:09AM (#40725655)
The first domestication was fire. That made the others easier. Also, humans used to cooperate
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