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Original posted Dec.2019, wordpress, reposted to reddit Jan.2.2020
Domestication, a paradigm shift from Hostile Takeover to Friendly Merger (a pet theory of mine, LoL)
Feature topic: Carnivorous Pets
How Canis Familiaris the familiar dog, began as the wild wolf. But what about human domestication? (the wild hunter-gatherer society became the sedentary civilization but violence was frequent; warfare is secondary topic)
Scientific evidence shows indisputably that ancestors of modern wolves were the genetic origins of modern dogs...
Wolf domestication, ancient phenomenon
(early humans in Africa) in the more open country learned to avoid predators while becoming predators themselves...
There is no corresponding consensus on why dog domestication occurred.
There is clear evidence that dogs were derived from gray wolves during the initial phases of domestication and that no other canine species was involved. (However,) the timing, geographic locations, and ecological conditions that led to dog domestication are not agreed.
The remains of large carcasses left by human hunter-gatherers may have led some wolves into entering a migratory relationship with humans... developing into hunting together and mutual defense from other carnivores and other humans (IOW, as low-cost but dutiful sentries).
Early humans were predators (see African Genesis), this is a key factor of domestication of a large carnivore. Being predators, humans would have carcass remains of prey (bones, offal, etc.) Having such in a wild environment would be an obvious hazard for hunter-gatherer societies, especially since by cooking, vapors would advertise the presence of carnivore-food.
Being carnivorous, wolves must have developed their human-compatibility by their behavior only, not as consumable-providers, like the other agricultural domestication species. Indeed, wolves became domesticated long before the age of Nomadic pastoralism, which may have pre-dated plant-cultivation agriculture, because it is technically more simple and easier to do, especially for nomadic hunters who already practiced the lifestyle, but having the problems of finding and approaching prey animals.
Another problem for nomadic hunters (all males, females were the gatherers, see Sexual division of labor) were competing bands of hunters. Bands competed in a territory for available prey, and a desired possession, female humans.
Hunting with wolves: How humans outlasted the Neanderthals 2015
Of Wolves and Men - Animated short 10 min
Neolithic decline | wkpd
Sudden Neolithic population drop was the result of brutal warfare? 2018 | hkrnws forum
Remains indicate early Bronze Age battle scene See the video 2019 22 min
Unless you have been living in ultra-urban environments all your life, you should know that the most obvious feature of dogs is their tendency to bark.
a strong hypothesis is that the vocal communication of dogs developed due to their domestication
A popular notion of wolf-dog transition is the development of cooperative hunting activity (see also previous link 'Hunting with wolves'). My view is that this is a weak hypothesis because cooperative hunting is a complex behavior suite, while barking on the fringes of a camp is a simple behavior, which could likewise have been reinforced by happy campers tossing scraps to the camp-following canines for their warning signals. Thus, their emergent vocalizations evolved up-habit and up-volume (dB). See reinforced OCD.
Hunter Gatherers and Dogs 2014 | plohks note especially comment of Anonymous_Chump who cites Dog domestication first in MddlE 2010
Dogs could have been the sentries that let hunter gatherers settle without fear of surprise attack. They may also have been the first major item of inherited wealth, preceding cattle, and so could have laid the foundations for the gradations of wealth and social hierarchy that differentiated settled groups from the egalitarianism of their hunter-gatherer predecessors... laying an unexpected track from wolf to wealth.
Evolution of the wolf caution: very detailed
Eradication of Wolves
History of their Extirpation 2015
Anti-Wolf USA 2008| PBS
Wolf Populations In Europe (map)
How Dogs (Eventually) Became Our Best Friends 9.9 min
Did Dogs domesticate themselves?
Evolution of Dogs (animation) 5 min | TED
Alpha’s Theory of Dog Domestication? 2018
Dogs domesticated Humans 2013 | NatGeo
Cat Domestication
Where Do Domestic Cats Come From? 2016 4.8 min | SciShow
Cats Domesticated themselves? 2017 | NatGeo
How Cats dominate their human 'owners' (with help from a parasite)
Medieval Cat owners may have benefited during Plagues
Cats and the Black Plague 2010
Killing the Cats (example of Basic Problem theory) 2008 | WAU This essay is so fundamental, it deserves to be a feature presentation. The cat connection is just an example. It's mainly about technology becoming a wild card, with potential to cause irreversible CATastrophe. Apparently Chaloupka never published the book Andrews cited.
Other Unintended Consequences of eradication of predators
Eradication’s Good Intentions (mosquitoes) 2019
Carnivore conservation: shifting the paradigm from control to coexistence 2017 | oxacad
China's 4 Pests Campaign... started the greatest mass starvation in history 2013
Fringe Conjecture: Neanderthals were vicious nocturnal predators, including humans as prey
On the Brighter Side
Fox Domestication (a recent phenomenon "Lovely"? little (tame) foxes 2017 | PBS
Cats (songs ranked)
A Boy and his Dog (fiction, Ellison)
Dances with Wolves (music video with title scene 7 min)
Child and Pet Robot (review of short video) Animated Allegory, Koreas
Cooperative hunting adventure, plus some education on population genetics (viral video) Dogs + Mink vs Rat Mob half hr
plural of mink oddment, minx; compare with fox, and vixen
ferret domestication
study notes
Pastoralism
Nomadic herding culture
http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-loudness.htm
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Medieval+Cat+owners+may+have+benefited+during+Plagues&atb=v81-4__&ia=web
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