I gave this guest lecture back in November at the University of Wyoming.
A colleague was teaching a Hunter-Gatherers class and had me come give the talk. This is an expanded version of the lecture I used to film my video on Stefan Milo’s channel. I added a lot more into it while keeping most of the information from the previous version.
As I had just gotten over two weeks of cov*d, I was a little spacey and I made a few errors while talking (in addition to some technical difficulties). But I also just had a few things flat out wrong. So I added notes and corrections where I could.
I’ll link my sources down below.
Let me know what you all think of this. I can do more lectures if you like!
Shout out Angela Perri.
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CORRECTIONS:
1) that is a video of a leopard, not a cheetah (my point being, a big cat).
2) I said this in the lecture, but I want to reiterate the status of cats being domesticated or not is still very debated. I don’t mean to say they are not..
3) I said dogs are 17,000 years older than horses, I misspoke. it would be 15,000 years. I was thinking 3000 BC. Not 3000 years ago.
4) as I added on the chalkboard in the lecture, the presence of white sclera in animal eyes is not totally exclusive to dogs, but it is by far the most pronounced among non-primate animals.
5) the widely agreed-upon date for behavioral modernity is 50,000 years ago, but there are many who argue it could’ve been up to 100 to 200,000 years ago that people were just as intelligent. I stated 50,000 years because it is at LEAST that long ago.
6) lions steal just as many kills as hyenas, if not more. However, I was just demonstrating the fascinating concepts of kleptoparasitism, as it is usually associated with hyenas. It’s part of the symbiotic mutualism hypothesis for me, that humans may have been doing this to wolves.
I’ll add more as I find them.
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Chapters:
0:00 People of the past
1:24 Prologue
1:55 Seneca creation and dogs
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3:52 INTRODUCTION
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6:04 CANINE ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
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6:14 Wolf evolution
7:45 Taxonomy issues
8:30 Social behavior
10:00 Zoology/anatomy
13:11 For cat people...
15:52 Intensive breeding /modern breeds
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18:14 DOG DOMESTICATION
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19:22 Self Domestication hypothesis
20:40 Symbiotic Mutualism hypothesis
23:00 Charles Darwin tangent
25:00 Pinocchio hypothesis
25:45 Siberian fox experiment
27:41 How they were domesticated (synopsis)
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30:29 ETHNOCYNOLOGY
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31:46 Cave hyena tangent
33:08 Polynesia
34:43 Scientific evidence (Genetics and remains)
38:28 Linguistics
39:38 Cave art
41:01 Biological anthropology (oxytocin, disease, etc.)
42:37 Biotechnology (hunting, travois, packing)
44:25 Inuit/far northern dogs
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45:20 MYTHOLOGY
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45:25 Cherokee Milky Way
46:00 The Mayas
47:45 Romulus and Remus
48:50 Dogs and death
49:23 Cerberus
49:30 Anubis
51:15 Xolotl, Itquintlan, and the Aztec/ Mexicas
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54:48 CONCLUSION
56:49: Greco-Roman dog epitaphs
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Books you should read:
(Quick read!) Fifth Beginning: https://amzn.to/3vBsIuy
(Prehistory Overview) The Human Past: https://amzn.to/3fvHa1B
Dogs: https://amzn.to/3c3rh0g