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For centuries, the common view of how domestication had occurred was that prehistoric people, realizing how useful it would be to have captive herds of food animals, began capturing wild animals and breeding them. Over time, by allowing only animals with "tame" characteristics to mate and produce offspring, human…

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