Humans domesticated dogs, cows and sheep. But wheat domesticated humans. amirite?

Except for some, those who are poisoned by it, those gluten-free ones. They will not bend to the...hold up, those poor bastards.

Isn't this just a very reduced synopsis of a Michael Pollan book?

Welfare/The Dole.

Now smoke your pot, watch sportsball,, play video games. "We will take care of you"

Do you mean "What"?

Anyway. my guess:

1. Cats
2. Other humsns, though we call that slavery, and that of course is bad.

Couldn't you say the same about dogs, cows, and sheep, though?

How can a crop like wheat domesticate humans, in much of the same way said humans did dogs, cows, and sheep?

Waaaay oversimplified. There are at least a half dozen cultures that independently developed an "advanced civilization" based on various agricultural practices entirely independently. It's fascinating! A goodly chunk of the world still don't rely primarily on wheat, and never have in their history.

Wrong again, humans domesticated wheat to maximize bounty per season and flavor per grain.

Not wheat but barley for making beer. Humans grew grain for at about 1000 years before bread was invented. This is why Samarian fairy tales, rather than starting out with "once upon a time", start out "before the first bread ovens were lit". This is also where written language comes from (to handle accounting).

My wife domesticated me (well, she tried anyway) and my dog has been training me.

lmao, I mean, I guess it could be taken that way, though reality is that we domesticated ourselves (as much as we did to wheat and other plants). But I mean, technically

Humans domesticated humans, or more aptly women domesticated humans.

Feral children are those children raised without any form of parenting. Examples include children who survived in the wild in isolation after their parents died. After being rescued they are effectively mentally disabled as a result of what they went through. Their language center is less developed and it takes longer to teach them.

Essentially without parents or communities children bypass that domestication.

There is a theory saying that plants are actually cultivating humans and other animals in order to use them as fertilizer to grow...

How to tell you don't understand domestication without saying you don't understand domestication.

Fun fact, dogs, pigs, and cats were all considered self domesticated. In essence, they all hung around human settlements scrounging for the scraps we left. Compared to sheep and cows where we had to herd them all into fenced areas.

Actually no it didn't.

Until we learned about crop rotation we would be nomadic and move around to plant crops and so on.

the Americas didn't have wheat native to it, or is this some political statement that native americans were undomesticated and you stand with the history of the church.

Yes, cultivation of wheat is what triggered shift from relatively flat, hunter-gatherer societies to hierarchical agricultural societies. Eventually, this shift extended our lifespans while reducing our standard of living.

I fight a loaf of bread every week for being responsible for me having to pay taxes.

Actually, dogs essentially domesticated themselves by coming to eat our food scraps.

And wheat was only the base crop for some ancient groups. Ancient Americans had corn. Southern Asia had rice. Oceania had taro and yams. Etc.

(to be pendantic - we absolutely also domesticated wheat and pretty much anything else we eat)

Well, farmers call things like wheat grass, which might explain why we have oppressed weed.

But wheat is also a cereal, so make your kids have a good breakfast and is there not something about sowing wild cereals

And just like we did to the cows and chickens, it made us fat, silly animals.

Yeh, also read the same in Yuval Noah Harari book The Sapiens.

Agriculture domesticated humans. We went from loving on the land roaming eating whatever to sitting in a house tending to our crops.

Humans domesticated humans. From the first stone tool, we've been on a path of self -domestication through advancements in technology and society. This was actually a thesis I wanted to write a paper on. Although I'm not an expert in the field. Eventually, we will become "pets" to technology. Which is a good thing.
There are some other primates that exhibit a similar self domestication. Though I forget the names at the moment. I think the bonobo is on that list. But I remember there being a smaller primate that was a better example.

Didn't wheat change DRAMATICALLY from contact with humans? I seem to recall reading that wild wheat has much smaller grains than cultivated wheat.

Would you rather be domesticated by wheat or enslaved by cats?

Everything we have is domesticated.

Man we domesticated Sand into Glas and Concrete...

The wheat we have today is from from thousands of years of selective breeding of wild grasses. Humans domesticated wheat.

Oh yeah I read that book. "Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari. Good stuff.

I'm not sure if this is a typo or not.

I'm gonna go with no. Wheat tamed us all.

Wheat and all the farmed crops were domesticated. Originally, wheat reproduced by blowing the grain in the wind so it could spread far. For that to work the end part that the wheat grain forms on needs to shatter. Wheat that is grown for agriculture the grain stays on allowing it to be harvested.

Dogs may be mostly domesticed

But I think humans are still Ferrell.

There aren't NEARLY as many dog robberies/murders/assaults as humans.

How? We raise and slaughter wheat the same as we do to animals.