But seriously though I've always thought it funny that we (me included) drink cow's milk. How did that get started? Like at some point in history somebody saw a baby cow sucking it's mother's teats and said "Hey let me get in on that."
It was no secret that mammals drink a mother's milk, considering that's what we humans do as well. So we just looked around in nature, found animals that produced a good amount of milk that we could harvest, and exchanged safety for milk.
Very smart people literally invented agriculture and deliberate genetic selections.
Very smart people literally invented agriculture and deliberate genetic selections.
Absolutely. Selective breeding is a very basic, yet profound, technology to alter everything alive that populates your environment. Every meal is replete with crops and animal products that would not exist without thousands of years of selective breeding by people patient enough to say: "my kids will benefit from the next generation being a bit better than the last."
Of course, if you point out this holds true for groups of people...
But seriously though I've always thought it funny that we (me included) drink cow's milk. How did that get started? Like at some point in history somebody saw a baby cow sucking it's mother's teats and said "Hey let me get in on that."
It was no secret that mammals drink a mother's milk, considering that's what we humans do as well. So we just looked around in nature, found animals that produced a good amount of milk that we could harvest, and exchanged safety for milk.
Very smart people literally invented agriculture and deliberate genetic selections.
Absolutely. Selective breeding is a very basic, yet profound, technology to alter everything alive that populates your environment. Every meal is replete with crops and animal products that would not exist without thousands of years of selective breeding by people patient enough to say: "my kids will benefit from the next generation being a bit better than the last."
Of course, if you point out this holds true for groups of people...
you're told you're racist.