Humans didn't tame animals, animals chose to become tame. Increasingly confrontational, the slogans of animal rights movements state that eating meat is murder, pets are slaves, laboratory animals are prisoners. But new studies on how the first animals came to be domesticated cast a different light on the relationship between humans and animals. Rather that an act of exploitation by man, domestication was a natural process. In this reappraisal of the human-animal bond, the author shows how domestication has proved to be a successful evolutionary strategy, benefiting humans and animals alike.
- ISBN10 0964875004
- ISBN13 9780964875005
- Publish Date 1 September 1995 (first published 1 February 1992)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 March 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Terrapin Press
- Edition 1995th ed.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 192
- Language English