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The Covenant of the Wild: Why Animals Chose Domestication

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The Covenant of the Wild: Why Animals Chose Domestication - Budiansky, Stephen
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Humans didn't tame animals, animals chose to become tame. Increasingly confrontational, the slogans of animal rights movements state that eating meat is murder, pets are slaves, laboratory animals are prisoners. But new studies on how the first animals came to be domesticated cast a different light on the relationship between humans and animals. Rather that an act of exploitation by man, domestication was a natural process. In this reappraisal of the human-animal bond, the author shows how domestication has proved to be a ...

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The Covenant of the Wild: Why Animals Chose Domestication 1999, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT

ISBN-13: 9780300079937

Trade paperback

The Covenant of the Wild: Why Animals Chose Domestication 1997, Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), London

ISBN-13: 9781857999792

Mass-market paperback

The Covenant of the Wild: Why Animals Chose Domestication 1992, William Morrow & Company, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780688096106

Hardcover