On Wed, 30 May 2007 09:54:24 -0400, Geoffrey Purcell  
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>
> Domestication of wild cattle in the Palaeolithic  would have been   
> rather  more
> difficult than you might think - you have to remember that  
> Palaeolithic/Early
> Neolithic-era wild cattle were giant aurochs, easily capable of killing  
> a human
> being, they were not the timid, inbred modern cattle we have today.  
> Without
> the use of domesticated dogs to help harass these ancient,giant cattle  
> into
> enclosures, raising domesticated aurochs would have been very dangerous  
> for
> humans, and therefore highly unlikely.

I differ. The image of a nutcase running after a large dangerous animal  
with a sharp stick or bolo rings not my bells. Maybe Neanderthals did it  
for fun, they had the muscles, and the broken bones for evidence.

I once knew a man who raised a polar bear from a cub - he was heartbroken  
when he had to send it to a zoo.
It is possible to make friends with wild creatures (or deceive them).
This is perhaps not domestication, but more like partnership.



> Here's a couple of standard standard links re Punctuated Equilibrium.  
> It's
> remarkably Creationist in its approach:-
>
> http://tinyurl.com/yo9vwy
>
> http://tinyurl.com/365mty
>

Thanks. Looks like they discovered the cataclysmic culling after I.  
Velikovsky or ice ages.

William