Re: 1st Season New Amsterdam - The Golden Boy - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !

"erilar" <drache@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> MDuPree@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Micky DuPree) wrote:
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>> "Joetheone" <joetheone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>>
>> : Somebody had to catch a wolf and tame it to start the whole thing
>> : rolling.
>>
>> I favor the hypothesis that early domestication involved raising stolen
>> or orphaned wolf cubs.  The ones that took to it were kept.  The ones
>> that didn't were killed.
>
> Depends on whose theory you like to believe.  I read a very convincing
> book that posited dog ancestors were the ones who scavenged human refuse
> and hung around longer when said humans approached, gradually developing
> into companions.
>
> -- 
> Mary Loomer Oliver (aka Erilar)
>
As good a theory as any.
See? This is why we NEED time machines!
But, I'm afraid we'd find, just as in the lives we live now, the reality 
would be al lot less intersting than the theories and fantasies.