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Why didn't Africans with access to Zebras (or their ancestor) domesticate the animal itself in the thousands of years they lived alongsides it? The most common response I've heard is that Zebras are aggressive but so are modern horses if you agitate them. They can kill you with a kick or maul you to death with their teeth. This is horses after being bred to be bigger and less violent by the way so imagine what their ancestors were like if they were cornered. Selective breeding a more docile lineage of Zebras after capturing and taming their young could have resulted in a horse equivalent for those without access to horses. All they had to do was capture them and kill off the aggressive/skittish ones.

>>16143618
Okay, I'll refute it in one picture

Behold, the single image that BTFO's the whole of Germs, Guns and Steel. No need to read the book, just look at this image

Behold, the single image that BTFO's the whole book