Hacker News with Generative AI: Domestication

Dog domestication happened many times, but most didn't pan out (arstechnica.com)
Between 8,000 and 12,000 years ago, people in Alaska kept reinventing dogs with mixed results.
Dogs, Domestication, Archaeology, Genetics, History
15 points by rntn 7 days ago | 0 comments
The Surprising New History of Horse Domestication (scientificamerican.com)
The world we live in was built on horseback. Many people today rarely encounter horses, but this is a recent development. Only a few decades ago domestic horses formed the fabric of societies around the globe. Almost every aspect of daily life was linked to horses in an important way. Mail was delivered by postal riders, people traveled by horse-drawn carriage, merchants used horses to transport goods across continents, farmers cultivated their land with horsepower, and soldiers rode horses into battle.
History, Animals, Science, Domestication
36 points by Brajeshwar 10 days ago | 28 comments
Horses may have been domesticated twice (sciencenews.org)
Horses, Domestication, Science, Archaeology
113 points by diodorus 178 days ago | 145 comments