Regarding herdmen and whether they use tools, well if they don't then they
should start de-evolving and becoming more ape like; but apes and chimps
(our closest relatives) use tools in a limited manner i.e.using sticks to
dig insects out of logs, using rocks to break open hard shelled fruits and
nuts. Also as was pointed out without tools they are helpless against any
other predator, because two legs is no way faster than four! IMHO herdmen
should either be de-evolving and becoming more like our earlier ancestors
say more like homo erectus or continuing the evolution into another species.
As far as I can tell from what I have read, they can't remain as they are as
they don't seem to be able to tend for themselves without protection from
herders.
I guess in a way they were made domesticated, but most domesticated animals
that I can think of still have some defences, what defences do herdmen have?
humbly yours
Chiara
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Chiara Condotta
Faculty of Law and Management
La Trobe University
Bundoora 3083
Victoria Australia
c.condotta_at_latrobe.edu.au
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One impulse from a vernal wood may teach you more of man
Of moral evil and of good than all the sages can.
Sweet is the lore which nature brings, our meddling intellect
mis-shapes the beauteous form of things.
We murder to disect.
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