How did people tame wild animals into farm animals?
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How did people tame wild animals into farm animals?
Look at a cow. Calm, slow, happy to be patted. Now picture its great-great-grandparent: a wild ox the size of a car, with horns like spears, who wanted nothing to do with humans. So how did we get from THAT to the gentle creature chewing grass in a field? The answer took thousands of years — and a lot of patience.
Here's the secret no one planned: taming wasn't one clever trick. It was a long, slow nudge across hundreds of animal generations. People didn't sit down and design a sheep. They just kept choosing, over and over, which animals got to stick around — and the animals slowly changed to fit us.
