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Tag Archives: animal domestication
COVID Reviews #3: Romans, Dogs, and Saudis
I don’t know if anyone misses my usual chatty, sometimes florid reviews, but they’re impossible to do on a phone. More mini-reviews it is! Continuing my onslaught of the TBR pile, I finished Lives of Famous Romans, by Olivia Coolridge. … Continue reading
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Tagged animal domestication, Arabia, Central Asia, history, Middle East, Persia-Iran, Rome
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Of love languages, cunning critters, epic battles, and cows
Time for some mini-reviews! Read but not reviewed in the last week or so have been: The Heart of the 5 Love Languages, Gary Chapman Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? Frans de Waal Shiloh: A … Continue reading
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Tagged animal domestication, Frans de Waal, historical fiction, primates, science, skills-and-readiness
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Of Neanderthals and dogs and extinction level events
Time for science short rounds! Last week I read The Invaders, a much-anticipated work about how dogs gave humans a competitive edge over their neanderthal cousins. This brief book posits that human beings function like invasive species, and after establishing … Continue reading
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Tagged animal domestication, anthropology, humor, science
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TBR: And Then There was One
Dear readers, we approach the end for the To be Read Takedown Challenge! Richard Francis’ Domesticated: Evolution in a Man-Made World proved disappointing, not because of the quality of content but the focus thereof. Although Domesticated sells itself as a … Continue reading
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Tagged animal domestication, anthropology, biology, evolution, science, TBR Takedown Challenge
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White Fang
White Fang© 1906 Jack Londonpp. 1- 101, Tales of the North. “An’ right here I want to remark,’ Bill went on, ‘that that animal’s familiarity with camp-fires is suspicious an’ immoral.’‘It knows for certain more’n a self-respectin’ wolf ought to … Continue reading
Horses at Work
Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America© 2008 Ann Norton Greene322 pages The quintessential image of horses in American history is the cowboy, of rough men moving cattle in the wilderness on horseback. But follow the cattle, and their … Continue reading
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Tagged America, American Civil War, animal domestication, energy, Gilded Age, history, transportation
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Horse
Horse: How the Horse Has Shaped Human Civilization© 2006 J. Edward Chamberlin288 pages How do I love thee, O horse? Let me count the ways. J. Edward Chamberlin’s Horse begins with one lonely native American mare separated from her tribe … Continue reading
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Tagged American West, animal domestication, art, China, history, mythology
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The Horse in the City
The Horse in the City© 2007 Clay McShane, Joel A. Tarr242 pages To the American imagination, horses are the stuff of country dreams, of farms and cowboys. This is a recent conceit, however, as for most of American history humans … Continue reading
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Tagged America, animal domestication, cities, goods/services, history, labor, transportation
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Cattle
Cattle: an Informal Social History© 2001 Laurie Winn Carlson321 pages Consider…the cow. A humble creature, its dopey expression reveals no vast intelligence, and its barrel of a body gives it virtually no athletic ability, but it is remarkable if nothing … Continue reading
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Tagged animal domestication, disease, farming, food, food and drink, goods/services, social history
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