Animal And Human Development Throughout The Ages

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but this connection is selective. In other words we are emotionally or economically connected with only the few species of animals that our ancestors deemed necessary enough to get along with. Today animals that are deemed to have no intrinsic face value to our modern society are being neglected. Shipman paints a pretty picture about our modern day connection with animals, saying how a number of people choose to live in daily association with animals, and how pet owners receive companionship, health benefits, and unconditional love from these animals (2011: 270-273). Granted, she does mention how modernization and increased urbanization have removed the animal connection from young children, thus inevitably from our future (2011: 275). She did not however mention anything about the effects that global warming is having on the lives of non-domesticated animals or discuss the effects of human deforestation. Modern humans have looked the other way when it comes to animals we don't ...

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close attention to the animals that we hunted for game. Hominids now had to devote "substantial time and energy to knowing where other animals were, to learning what they were doing and what they were likely to do in the future" (2011: 61). This may also have led to an increase in brain size. Since all this new information is vital to your future survival and the survival of your future offspring then you are going to need a storage place to keep all if it. Luckily for us our early ancestors had enough brain capacity to store all this vital information. But there is a problem that arises. Since tools allowed you to hunt animals that you previously never dared to encounter before and ...

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