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. continue...