January 2010

 

New Decade, New Knowledge

 

From our early hunting days millions of years ago to the proliferation of farming just ten thousand years ago to our modern-day "schizophrenic" treatment of animals, we humans have attempted to define and control our relationships with the creatures of the world for many a millennium.

 

To say the least, our history with animals is a complicated, dichotomous telling of reverence and fear and love and hate, and it is a well-studied tale by historians and anthropologists alike.

 

But, lately (as in the last few decades) our attempts to understand the many facets of human-animal relationships have been getting interesting in a much different way.

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