How Did Ancient Humans Tame the World? | The Animals That Changed Us

How Did Ancient Humans Tame the World? How did ancient humans tame the world? How did ancient humans turn wolves into dogs, wild cats into house cats, and wild horses into riding animals, with no cages, no science, and no idea what a gene was? Your dog used to be a wolf circling the fire in the dark. Your cat used to be a wild predator that nobody invited in. And the horse grazing behind a fence used to be something ancient humans only hunted for meat. This is the real, complete story of the domestication of animals, and of how ancient humans tamed the animals that still live in your home today. This video explains exactly how ancient humans domesticated animals, step by step: How ancient humans and wolves in Ice Age Europe became dogs, the first animal ever domesticated, long before farming How the calmest wolves got the scraps, survived the winter, and passed their traits on, until a wild predator became a dog How dogs paid ancient humans back by guarding the camp, tracking prey, and running down wounded animals How rock art in Saudi Arabia shows some of the oldest leashes in the world How "puppy eyes" evolved, and why dogs and humans release oxytocin when they look at each other How ancient humans at Zhokhov Island in Siberia were breeding specialized sled dogs more than 9,000 years ago How ancient humans in the Zagros Mountains domesticated wild goats and sheep by keeping them alive instead of hunting them How ancient humans domesticated the aurochs, a wild cow the size of a small car, into the ancestor of about 1.5 billion cattle today How wild cats domesticated themselves by following mice into ancient grain stores The cat buried beside a person on Cyprus, and why someone carried a wild cat across the sea by boat Why ancient Egyptians treated cats as sacred and mummified them by the tens of thousands Why cats barely changed compared to dogs, and how cats learned to "work" humans instead How ancient humans went from hunting horses for meat to keeping, breedi