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[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That makes it sound like the cat domesticated humanity not "The cat self domesticated itself"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

in reality it sure as fuck seems like humanity domesticated humanity, we have a lot of domesticated features like neotony (we look strikingly like chimpanzee children) and we're arguably the most ludicrously social species on earth.

the ironic thing is that cats aren't really very domesticated, they're inherently a social animal and happen to just sorta fit with how humans work.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Note though, that neoteny is a disputed theory and (if at all) only part of human evolution.

Sad that the Wikipedia article is a mess now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Neotony isn't disputed to exist in humans, only the ultimate cause and extent is disputed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I mean that sounds more like those are just traits we have and we made domesticated animals have similar traits to out own since presumably that makes us get along better.