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While they may seem like the same thing at times, there is a vast difference between a tame animal and a domesticated animal.
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Previous Episode:
We've Been Genetically Engineering Animals For 10,000 Years: https://youtu.be/E4lSMVo13nE?list=PLwwOk5fvpuuKNdg9mSzLevbxNKYhaHZm-
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Sources:
Evolution, Consequences And Future Of Plants And Animal Domestication:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v418/n6898/full/nature01019.html
"Plant and animal domestication is the most important development in the past 13,000 years of human history. It interests all of us, scientists and non-scientists alike, because it provides most of our food today, it was prerequisite to the rise of civilization, and it transformed global demography."
Why Some Animals Can Never Be Domesticated:
http://io9.gizmodo.com/5756178/why-can-some-animals-never-be-domesticated
"Dogs, sheep, pigs, cows, horses - all these animals and more have been fundamentally changed by humans to make our lives better.
Why Can't All Animals Be Domesticated?:
http://www.livescience.com/33870-domesticated-animals-criteria.html
"About 11,000 years ago, humans realized there was a better place for some animals than the other end of a spear. We started coaxing them into our settlements, gradually molding their natures to better suit our needs for food, labor and companionship."
Gone Astray: The Care And Management Of The Asian Elephant In Domesticity:
http://www.fao.org/docrep/005/ac774e/ac774e06.htm
"The management of the Asian elephant is quite anomalous in the conservation world, with circumstances quite bizarre compared to other large mammals."
Island Tameness: An Altered Cardiovascular Stress Response in Galápagos Marine Iguanas:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031938410000296
"Island tameness is a widely documented phenomenon in which island species, particularly those that have evolved with no or few natural predators, show a greatly reduced behavioral response when faced with unfamiliar predators."
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