Domesticated animals, their relation to Domesticated animals, their relation to man and to his advancement in civilization; domesticatedanim01shal Year: 1895 THE FLOCKS AND HERDS 12 least improvable of all our servitors. The fact is, this animal belongs to an ancient and lowly type of mammals character- ized by relatively small brains, and therefore of weak intelli- gence ; but, for its singular serviceableness in drought-ridden j:j:. rtyi Camels Feeding countries, it would probably have been hunted off the earth by the early men, as have been many other remnants of the ancient life. It i


Domesticated animals, their relation to Domesticated animals, their relation to man and to his advancement in civilization; domesticatedanim01shal Year: 1895 THE FLOCKS AND HERDS 12 least improvable of all our servitors. The fact is, this animal belongs to an ancient and lowly type of mammals character- ized by relatively small brains, and therefore of weak intelli- gence ; but, for its singular serviceableness in drought-ridden j:j:. rtyi Camels Feeding countries, it would probably have been hunted off the earth by the early men, as have been many other remnants of the ancient life. It is somewhat characteristic of the older forms of animals, those which took shape in the earlier Tertiary periods, that they are less variable than those which acquired their char- acteristics in times nearer our own. It is a fact well known to the students of paleontology, that species and genera


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