what was the main advantage of domesticating plants and animals in early humans
2006-11-10 01:40:50 · 5 answers · asked by jeremy31593 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
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Is it easier to find food or to look outside your cave at your vegetable garden?
Is it easier for you to find, chase, and catch your dinner or is it easier to open the gate to the pen and club your dinner?
2006-11-10 01:45:27 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually when you have an animal that is domesticated it is considered a pet. You wouldn't eat your domesticated chicken or cow. But their offspring you would. So if you domesticate your farm animals then you wouldn't kill them. You wouldn't eat them. So it would be for reproducing. They might sell their offspring as well for money.
2006-11-10 09:51:10 · answer #2 · answered by cecilia m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Biology and Medicine - - science news articles online technology magazine articles Biology and Medicine
... early farmers succeeded in at least initially domesticating most plants worth domesticating. ... account of how our domesticated plants and animals arose ...www.discover.com/issues/sep-94/features/biologyandmedici422
Biology and Medicine - - science news articles online technology magazine articles Biology and Medicine
... early farmers succeeded in at least initially domesticating most plants worth domesticating. ... account of how our domesticated plants and animals arose ...www.discover.com/issues/sep-94/features/biologyandmedici422
Wikipedia: Domestication
Domesticated animals, plants, and other organisms are those whose collective ... is early evidence for conscious cultivation and trait selection of plants by pre ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestication
2006-11-10 09:44:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It helps provide food all year round. It put them in control of ahving the food and knowing the food is there instead of relying on hunting and gathering.
2006-11-10 09:43:14 · answer #4 · answered by polystyrene_high 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It led to the concept of leisure time.
2006-11-10 10:31:59 · answer #5 · answered by b4_999 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋