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For centuries, people explained domestication in a simple way. They believed that prehistoric humans, realising how useful it would be to have their own herds of food animals, began to capture wild animals and breed them. Over many generations, by allowing only the animals with "tame" characteristics to mate and…

• According to traditional theories of domestication, how were wild animals tamed?
• What is suggested in the new theory?