Cats and dogs have different histories of domestication, different needs, different attachments to their owners and different natural behaviors that are more or less compatible with human needs and behaviors. And, like humans,...
In terms of conservation, many pig species are not at risk due to their widespread domestication and breeding. However, giraffes have been experiencing a decline in wild populations due to habitat loss, poaching, and disease, leading to several subspecies being classified as endangered. 15 ADVERTISE...
Education for women is the best way to lower birth rates, the argument goes, and the better educated a women is, the more she will postpone motherhood. The unstated implication is that the later motherhood is postponed, the fewer children women will manage to have, due to age-related ferti...
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The definition of ultra-processed foods (UPF) is quite simple – if there are any ingredients in the food-like product that you can’t find in a home pantry, it is UPF. ‘Vegetable’ or seed oils (canola, palm, rice bran, corn, etc) are by definition UPF – they can only be ...
This was the biggest movement thus yet of women changing roles in society and moving away from domestication. This movement was thwarted by returning soldiers, their moving back to the workplace, and the repositioning of women in the home. The baby boom followed the Second World War, further...
The innovation flurry was also driven by the fact that many of our innovative solutions became problems themselves. Enhanced hunting technologies at times led to the extinction of the prey on which humans depended. Domestication of herd animals provided a breeding ground for many killer diseases that...
Fortunately, there are happier instances of coevolution being used by humans too. Consider the domestication process of dogs by humans. As the domestication process continued, dogs learned to identify and adapt to better serve human interests, even as their life spans were extended and their specie...
The foundation of this theory is the belief that the dinosaurs were what we call reptiles; the connotations of this are that they were cold-blooded, slow-moving, sprawling, had scaly skin and weren't altogether bright in the brain department. This was a belief that was particularly prevalent...
Now a mother of four, Freeman believes the "domestication of play" is robbing kids of their sense of belonging within a society. Nevertheless, Freeman says children’s needs are starting to get more emphasis. In the Netherlands, child-friendly "home zones" have been created where priority ...