Selects: How Animal Domestication Works

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 14 August 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

It's strange to hear, but the transition from hunting-gathering to agriculture, including the domestication of wild animals, is the single biggest thing to ever happen to humanity. You can thank it for everything from kingdoms to Ebola. Learn all about it in this classic episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.1	Hello friends, it's me Josh and for this week's Select I chose our September 2014 episode
0:37.3	How Animal Domestication Works.
0:39.9	First I want to congratulate you on being curious enough that you pressed play and what
0:44.8	seems like it might be a very boring topic.
0:47.0	But your adventurousness will be rewarded indeed because this is one of those stuff you
0:51.8	should know episodes that sounds dull but turns out to be super interesting.
0:56.1	I hope you enjoy it and spend the rest of your day patting yourself on the back.
1:00.6	Go ahead, you deserve it.
1:05.5	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
1:15.0	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
1:16.5	I'm Josh Clark.
1:17.5	Here's Charles W. Chuck Brite and our buddy Noel who's producing us.
1:22.2	Yeah.
1:23.2	And that's Stuff You Should Know.
1:25.2	Yeah.
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