DD'eDeN aka note/nickname/alas_my_loves wrote:
https://phys.org/news/2021-09-late-pleistocene-humans-hatched-cassowary.html
It's intriguing but it's definitely NOT domestication, even if true. It's close but
not domestication.
Also there's no evidence for the exploitation of these supposed hatchlings. So, why
would they be hatching them and then not doing anything with them?
It's also pretty shaky, the science. I mean, it's based on the shells from a different bird, and there's lots of ways to lose calcium, plus 6k to 18k is a long time and a lot of opportunity to lose it.
Chemically. Like from any acid. And given thousands of years we're not
talking much of an acid necessary to attack the calcium...
Also they could be entirely wrong. I mean, what if people just collected
eggs? During certain seasons there might be an abundance, more than they
could eat in a day or three or four. And then some hatched.
There. Same results, completely different actions.
I'm not saying that they're wrong, it's all quite intriguing, but there's so much
missing. Most of all: With more than TWICE AS MUCH TIME as the
domestication of chickens, why did this semi-domestication never morph
into domestication? Why is it no more advanced today than 18,000 years
ago?
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