- 24 Apr 2024 17:11
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Well domestication was just a beneficial adaptation to circumstance just like all adaptations are. It is not different in essence to finches evolving different beak shapes depending on which nuts they consume.
You could say that if humans ceased to exist then domestication would no longer be useful...but that is always the case. Any radical change in the environment is going to be difficult for any life form and require adaptations. Domestication is nothing special in that sense.
QatzelOk wrote:This doesn't make sense, though you have managed to put "domestication" and "survival" into a sentence.
Not only does the domestication-created dog create nothing of valuable to other species, but it has lost its ability to survive through the domestication process. Instead, it has been bred to "depend on" a host.
If humanity does (or perhaps already has done) the same thing to itself, our extinction clock is ticking...
Well domestication was just a beneficial adaptation to circumstance just like all adaptations are. It is not different in essence to finches evolving different beak shapes depending on which nuts they consume.
You could say that if humans ceased to exist then domestication would no longer be useful...but that is always the case. Any radical change in the environment is going to be difficult for any life form and require adaptations. Domestication is nothing special in that sense.