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brewens

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10. What's funny is that even some of what these people think were primative people, that
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 04:51 PM
Nov 2017

they are embarrassed to be descended from, probably had to understand natural selection fairly well. Or things real close to it. Their descendants figured out how to domesticate and selectively breed animals. Who knows how far back for some of them. That kind of thing keeps getting pushed back in time the more we learn.

They had the knowledge of their environment, and the plants and animals they relied on to survive, that would rival out surgeons in expertise. They saw when a new bull, or cow for some animals, took over a herd. They saw the things that happened, and the new offspring, good and bad. They probably knew right from the start to breed their livestock with wild stock when they needed new blood. We know the plains tribes would hobble their mares where the wild stallions could get to them. No telling how long ago people knew to do that.

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