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domesticate Verb [-cating, -cated] 1. to bring or keep (wild animals or plants) under control or cultivation 2. to accustom (someone) to home life domestication n
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To exploit large animals for food, energy, or other uses, you need domesticable wild animals, something that did not exist in pre-Columbian America (where the arrival of Homo sapiens 13,000 years ago apparently led to their extinction). Diamond argues instead that the civilizations that originated in the "fertile crescent" of Southwest Asia, where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers join, were simply dealt a winning hand of domesticable crop and animal species that led to food production. Amazingly, out of all sub-Saharan Africa's rich wildlife, not one species of large mammal has proven domesticable. |
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