马、车轮和语言

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• 达尔文本人从未将他的适应性和自然选择理论应用到诸如种族和语言这种模糊的对象上, (查看原文)

  NADPH 1赞 2021-09-09 10:32:46

• But horses were first domesticated by people who thought of them as food. They were a cheap source of winter meat; they could feed themselves through the steppe winter, when cattle and sheep needed to be supplied with water and fodder. After people were familiar with horses as domesticated animals, perhaps after a relatively docile male bloodline was established, someone found a particularly submissive horse and rode on it, perhaps as a joke. But riding soon found its first serious use in the management of herds of domesticated cattle, sheep, and horses. In this capacity alone it was an important improvement that enabled fewer people to manage larger herds and move them more efficiently, something that really mattered in a world where domesticated animals were the principal source of food ... (查看原文)

  方若 2017-08-18 19:08:50