How was breeding and selection of animals for particular traits and talents part of the evolving process of domestication? How did it add value to cattle? In what way was pure breeding and livestock speculation a function of the Market Revolution?

Animal & Society

• How was breeding and selection of animals for particular traits and talents part of the evolving process of domestication? How did it add value to cattle? In what way was pure breeding and livestock speculation a function of the Market Revolution?

• How did humans imagine wolf behavior? By contrast (or, accordingly?) what were wolves probably doing in those many decades? Did their behavior change over time? Why were wolves unable to cope with human predation? How does Jon Coleman determine what historical wolf behavior may have been?