How Humans Domesticated Just About Everything | Compilation
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Published 2023-02-15
You have domestication to thank for some of your favorite foods, furry friends, and even a mode of transportation. But did we domesticate ourselves, too?
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All Comments (21)
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We should've domesticated bears
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Horses and cows are actually twice the size now as in the Bronze age and much more docile. Ponies are not midget horses, horses are giant ponies!
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My parents have an apple tree growing in their garden that produces wide, lumpy, almost flat green apples with flesh so firm you cannot bite into them. When cooked/baked the chunks hold their shape and are soft and tender. We theorise that these apples have a high pectin content, I always wanted to cultivate them and sell them as baking apples. But they are so ugly I don’t think anyone would want to buy them 😂 Oh and they taste delicious, perfectly tart and sweet once cooked but inedible when raw.
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And now I know why Brussels sprouts look like miniature cabbages.
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Surprised they didn't mention the fox domestication experiment. Almost immediately they started seeing floppy ears and unique patterns just by breeding the tamest foxes together. It was remarkable how quickly it happened
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Now I'm wondering if that shiny red apple in the story of Snow White was actually just a bland red delicious apple, and there was no poison needed to make her faint from shock...
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I like the theory that the reason the Amazon has as many edible and medicinal plants as it does, is because it was originally carefully cultivated a few thousand years ago
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The idea of cats domesticating themselves is such a cat move. Definitely in-character.
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I do love the Silver Fox experiment and how it impacted our understanding of domestication/selection
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The apple segment was particularly fascinating and well explained. But after learning that Johnny Appleseed was a real person, I now wonder how he managed to s=cash in on his plantings - I mean presumably he wouldn't have stuck around for 10 years waiting for them to mature. And if he came back 10 years later, what was to prevent others from claiming the tree as their own? And did he have maps and timetables to aid in his finding the literal fruits of his labor a decade later?
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It's interesting that wild dogs all basically look the same, while domesticated dogs are all sorts of sizes and shapes. But domesticated cats all look the same, but wild cats are of all shapes and sizes (ocelot to cougar to leopards, etc).
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Oh yeah. Zebras. I had a close encounter with a zebra stallion in Namibia myself. For some weird reason I thought it would behave either like a horse or probably like a donkey, so I could close in on it quite well. The mares in the herd did as I thought. As soon as I closed the distance, they trottet away a bit, keeping an eye on me. The stallion on the other hand closed in on me. That was quite scary. He was definitly going to attack if I wouldn't retreat. So I did the sane thing and went away.
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Funfact: kale is also very commonly named in Germany. Brussel sprouts are called Rosenkohl (Rose kale), cauliflower is called Blumenkohl (Flower kale), Kohlrabi you already mentioned, kale is called Grünkohl (green kale) and white cabbage is called Weißkohl, so the same. I mean .. German is kinda lazy :D
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It has been my experience here in South-West Ontario (Can.), that the site for any old abandoned farm will almost always yield 3 plants - periwinkle, French Lilacs and at least one ancient apple tree.
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It also would have good for you to mention the Silver Fox that Russia did a lot of research on. The more domesticated the became the more they developed a curl to their tail, like domesticated dogs. There are other fun facts from that research, but perhaps a different video on it?
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Heart warming non-science related fact: Johnny Appleseed’s home town nearly lost it’s last apple orchard when the city bought the land with plans for development but elementary school kids from across the country wrote in to protest and it worked! The city opted to instead invest back into the orchard where it continues to run to this day.
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The best apples I've ever eaten were from a crab-apple tree in a field that we owned. Just some random tree. The apples were so acidic, it left my mouth feeling like I just at a whole fresh pineapple.
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It feels so odd that all of apples genetic diversity led to a ton of apple varieties that feel very similar especially when you compare them to brassica which are wildly different but consistent. But then the more you think about it, it kind of makes sense
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The thing about Johnny Apple Seed is that it honestly didn't matter all that much to him what kinds of apples happened to grow, as they weren't meant for eating, but instead for making cider, apple jack, and brandy. While tastier apples do produce better versions of all of these products, an inferior cider at the time was still more than capable of selling.
