March 2021

I think when comparing wild and tame, on the one hand, we can look at we see lions and wolves, and then we compare them to domestic tabbies, chihuahuas, and think, well, it’s a lot more respectable- there’s something more magnificent about a lion or a wolf than there is about a domestic cat or […]

In the last couple videos, I looked at the idea of human domestication, the idea that modern humans can be considered somehow tame and domesticated compared to our wild ancestors. Now, it’s quite a different way of looking at things than the typical more positive and congratulatory view of evolution: that mainly we became smarter.

So I’ve been talking about human domestication, and how appropriate that it fits in with this one-year anniversary of the Covid lockdowns. It was right around a year ago that suddenly everything changed, the biggest interruption to normal life, in many parts of the world, possibly ever. Any part of the world, with the exception

Last video, I looked at this idea of human domestication, thinking about how we share some of the features of an animal that’s been domesticated when we compare modern civilized life to some kind of wild past. And I wonder how far we can take this analogy. And it seems that it goes a lot