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A Study Of Domesticated Animals By Jared Diamond
Diamond starts off talking about domesticated and undomesticated animals. He mentioned zebras in the title of this chapter, which he soon explains that zebras are one of the animals that can not be domesticated.Eurasia had a large amount domesticated animals in general. Having domesticated animals benefited Eurasians since it was another factor that helped them mature quicker. Diamond also lists reasons why some animals were not able to be domesticated; diet, anxiety, breeding, placement, social structure, and population growth. The animals that were able to be domesticated were domesticated by 2500 BC.There are many demands to domesticate an animals such as their diet, how fast they mature, and etc. This may answer Yali’s question since domesticated

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