Why do more than 40 percent of Americans think that the Universe began after the domestication of the dog?
WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication.
And there are my cats, engaged in a ritual that goes back thousands of years, tranquilly licking themselves after the meal. Practical animals, they prefer to have others provide the food. . . some of them do. There must have been a split between the cats who accepted domestication and those who did not.
Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.