The Covenant of the Wild
Subtitle: Why Animals Chose Domestication
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: April 10, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780300079937
Subjects: Animal Ecology; Philosophy Of Anthropology; Nature; Nature/Ecology; Agriculture - Animal Husbandry; Animal Rights; Nature / Animal Rights; Animals; Life Sciences - Zoology - General; Domestic animals; Evolution; Origin; Philosophy of nature
First sentence: For two million years we were hunters; for ten thousand years we were farmers; for the last one hundred years we have been trying to deny it all, except for the fervent moments when we try to recapture it all, or do both at once.