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> Note that nearly all of the meats listed are *agricultural* and never
> seen in paleolithic times.
> Amadeus
Cows, sheep, camels, goats, horses and dogs were all represented in the
Pleistocene and were prey species for humans. Like other examples of
Pleistocene mega-fauna, their ability to store large amounts of fat is what
allowed them to survive ice-age conditions.
The relationship between their neotinized offspring and neotinized humans
domestication ) is what allowed them to survive the Pleistocene extinctions
more successfully than any other species. Without bacon, a billion pigs
estimated world population) would become none very soon.
see: Budiansky, Stephen,
The Covenant of the Wild: Why Animals Chose Domestication.
New York: William Morrow & Co., Inc.,
1992.
Ray Audette
Author "NeanderThin"
www.NeanderThin.com
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