Animal Quote by Jared Diamond

Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species…

— Jared Diamond

Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there…

— Jared Diamond

I subscribe to the theory that Mankind never domesticated any animal. They came in from the cold and looked cute until they were fed.

— David Beard

The first animals to be successfully domesticated were dogs, which were a big help because they would bark all night and fetch thrown sticks,…

— Dave Barry

“defines domestication as “the human creation of a new form of plant or animal—one that is identifiably different from its wild ancestors and extant…

— David Christian

“Domestication is a variation of the process of evolution, where the selector has been not just natural forces but human ones, eventually intent on…

— Alexandra Horowitz

“Human beings have been under cultivation longer than we’ve been cultivating anything else. Our cultures domesticate us for obscure purposes, nurturing and encouraging certain…

— Christopher Ryan

Eurasia's main axis is east/west, whereas the main axis of the Americas is north/south. Eurasia's east/west axis meant that species domesticated in one part…

— Jared Diamond

Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa,…

— Harry Johnston

Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Human nature has been landscaped, replanted, weeded, fertilized, fenced off, seeded, and irrigated as intensively as any garden or seaside golf course. Human beings…

— Christopher Ryan

“In such prototribal societies, individuals who found it harder to play along, to restrain their antisocial impulses, and to conform to the most important…

— Jonathan Haidt