SOME CONSEQUENCES OF ANIMAL DOMESTICATION FOR HUMANS

Throughout human evolution our species has had many kinds of interacti ons with others, including predatory, competitive, parasitic, mutualis tic, and commensal. We still have such interactions in the modern worl d, with the most important resulting from our domestication of other s pecies. Domestication created new kinds of interaction by which we con trolled the freedom and reproduction of certain animals. Because domes ticated populations became dependent on humans various adaptations by humans were necessary, and it is argued that these influenced the cult ural, and possibly biological, evolution of our species.