Domesticated Animals: Success for the Species, Suffering for the Individual
Notes and reflections on Yuval Noah Harari’s course segment on the domestication of animals. The explanations below summarize the arguments presented in the lecture. Domesticated Animals: Success for the Species, Suffering for the Individual The agricultural revolution changed more than the relationship between humans and plants. As Harari explains, it also transformed the lives of animals. Sheep, goats, pigs, cattle, chickens, horses, and other species gradually became part of human agricultural systems....