ACBS 160D1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Theodore Roosevelt, List Of Disney Animated Shorts, Hunter-Gatherer

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Animal & Comp Biomed Sciences
• Course: ACBS 160D1
• Professor: H.Steklis, N.Steklis

Document Summary

Theories of how dog domestication began: wolf pup adoption hypothesis, camp dog (scavenger dog) hypothesis. Putting it all together: stages of dog domestication. Hunter-gatherers kidnapped wolf puppies and raised them. Hand raising the young of wide range of wild species is common in hunter gatherer, in some cultures the young animal is suckled alongside human children. The human cute response likely stems from attraction to babies-infantile features (large head, large eyes) stimulates care-giving. Attracted to animals that retain infantile features into adult hood-think panda bears, or bambi. The evolution of mickey mouse (human eyes, shorter snout, pudgy head and limbs) Teddy roosevelt and evolution of the teddy bear . The fateful 1902 mississippi hunt shorter snout relatively bigger head pudgier. Wild wolves are very difficult to tame or train, or selectively breed, don"t readily accept humans as dominant. Stone age people didn"t have chain link fences to selectively breed dogs- against their will (coppinger)