Are Humans Domesticated? How We Got This Way

THE GREATEST LIE IN HISTORY | Are Humans Domesticated? Today will be talking about how humanity went through the process of self-domestication. and how and why dogs are also a self domesticated species. We will also be going over the agricultural revolution which is more accurately called the agricultural accident. as Yuval Noah Hariri would say we domesticated the animals and the plants domesticated us. Human domestication is a bit of a special case as is human evolution, in general, we have to factor in a form of natural selection called group selection. We'll also look into neural crest cells, human history, and how dogs became wolves in order to cover the science of domestication!

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Human domestication

Dogs

WHEAT & agriculture

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[TravisGilbert]

Earliest record of Language is approximately 3500 BCE
Thoughts on this episode?
Edit: this video take 10 different rewrite reshots and I still don't like it 😅
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[erick]

Me: wait it's all an accident?
Travis: always has been *cocks gun*

[SourSourSour]

*Humans accidentally make a society*
-Yeah, totally meant to do that.

[jerrylintz]

You can tell its trustworthy because he not only cited everything but also categorized it

[jatwala]

you know too much. you are too powerful

[hannahgreen]

"Tamed being used lightly of course. Their job was murder." 😂 My favorite video so far! Good job Kangaroo!

[speed_of_dark]

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[alexanderbordner]

Reading through this comment section is why I love watching youtubers like this one, because they are always so active with their community.

[manwithoutaplan]

Hey Vsauce Michael here. What is domesticated.

[lts]

One interesting theory I read about was that the original farmers were traders. The oldest evidence we have for what type of food was farmed points towards alcohol (from barley). Which kind of makes sense when you think about it. A drug that increases social relationships (and allows for a bit of fun) being traded for actual food. Humans were so dominant at the time, we would have definitely been able to produce a surplus of food, so trading a bit away for some alcohol...

[swampd]

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[CA-vxsn]

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[carlagrayson]

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[Synthwave_Ash]

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[LawrenceMeisel]

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[matthew_thefallen]

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[methmeth]

Humans Domesticate themselves

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[atharvadeshpande]

Commented for the Algorithm. Nothing to say about the video except that it's Awesome.

[MadoctheHadoc]

This was really interesting but the I think you missed the key advantage of agriculture that lead us to create modern society, surplus.
While for a hunter gatherer, it almost always took about a 1000 calories of energy to find 1000 calories of food, with agriculture it is *possible*, in specific environments usually around river basins but more and more widespread as technology progressed for a 1000 calories of energy spent on food making to reap 1250 calories of food.
Four farmers could then not only supply themselves but between them, someone else too who didn't have to work. This 5th person could specialise into doing something else, occasionally they would invent a better method or tool for farming or fighting (see stone --> bronze, bronze --> iron), which means more food, which means less people have to work eating food which means more people specialising and so on.
This is how we went from 100% of the population involved in food production to just 2% today. It may be one of the best ways to measure how advanced a civilisation was, regardless of quality of life, we could not do what we have done if we never transitioned to agriculture and surplus although granted, it was likely worse for people to start off with.

[travisgray]

Wow, this channel is a hidden gem. Thanks to John Green for pointing me here.