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The neolithic “revolution”, from hunting and gathering in human communities to animal husbandry and agriculture, seems to have originated in the Near East. A primitive kind of domestication arising from the adoption of the young of wild beasts killed by hunters seems to have preceded the deliberate breeding of domesticated strains.
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Bökönyi, S. Development of early stock rearing in the Near East. Nature 264, 19–23 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/264019a0
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