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Question: An evolution question to ponder!.!.!.!?
To what extent is raising a child similar to domestication!? For example, when a child is very young, and does something aggressively animal-like, parents yell at him/her!. This allows for them to know better and become more "civilized" by human terms!. What I am asking is this, how similar is the process of "civilization" to the process of domestication, and does that not prove that the only difference between us and animals is that we think and teach our children to be better and they don't!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Domestication is the deliberate breeding of desirable attributes into a species!. It is contrary to evolution, in that it rewards (allows breeding of) characteristics that may not have survived normal evolutionary conditions!. For example, the basset hound would not have evolved due to it's poor breeding capability, but it arrived via domestication!.
The condition of selective breeding is clearly not present in the treatment of specific children (unless you begin castrating unruling children!)!. Civilization is simply imposing learned responses in to individuals!. But judging by the breeding habits of even the most uncivilized persons in our society, child-rearing lessons have little impact on human evolution!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Evolution covers all areas of mans life both the material (mortal) life and the Spirit(immortal) life!. We understand our physical evolution but our spirit evolution is not understood at all!. This evolution of the human mind from matter association to spirit union results in the transmutation of the potentially spirit phases of the mortal mind into the vast state of being between the physical and the spiritual, morontia realities of the immortal soul!.
All of this tremendous activity is a normal part of the making of an evolutionary world on the order of Urantia and constitutes the astronomic preliminaries to the setting of the stage for the beginning of the physical evolution of such worlds of space in preparation for the life adventures of time!.Note: Urantia an ancient name for Earth!.
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I thought about that a lot too!. You teach a dog to respond to its name by looking at it and calling it often!. YOu do the same with babies, and eventually they learn!. We have a system of rewards and punsihments for our childrens' actions; same with dogs, though with dogs it would be more simple!.!.!.!.
It really isn't that different, except for maybe more love for a child than a dog, and more compassion, more frustration, more pressure, more etc!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
hardly at all, domestication is chossing genetically calmer and neotenized individuals and breeding them!. Training has NOTHING to do with it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com