Filed under: Corn, dogs, history, weather | Tags: change, Corn,
dogs, history, weather I’ve recently been in a conversation on
technology in agriculture with another blogger that has started
me thinking of all the way we humans shape the land, plants and
the animals around us. Humans are the only creature that has
affected so many parts of the world that they live in. Our
actions have been far reaching, but they are not all recent. We
wonder at the modern marvels man produces, but some of his
greatest marvels are not at all recent. Perhaps the most changed
animal on the earth is the dog. The dog most likely started out
as a small wolf like animal. Once it took up residence with man,
he began to shape it’s destiny. Today the multitude of dog forms
from huge to tiny can all trace their way back to that same
ancestor. And yet, if the dog was allowed to live in the wild,
it would return to something very like its ancestor. We have
created an artificial creature, in an artificial environment to
meet our needs. Tru