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Not really, ants are not "fully skilled", a recently formed colony of leafcuter ants doesn't show the same kind of efficiency as an older one, and ants are known to learn from examples given by other ants.
Originally posted by IAMTAT
human infants are not born with the instinct and fully-developed ability to farm, whereas their entomological counterparts arrive in the world (post cataclysmic or otherwise) fully skilled in the art.
Originally posted by ArMaP
Considering that there are more species in the Ovis genus, I think that shows that sheep were already part of the Earth's animal population.
Originally posted by IAMTAT
That said, I would like to know if there is any substantial evidence in the evolutionary record pointing to the specific evolution of sheep on earth before this time.
Originally posted by ArMaP
reply to post by IAMTAT
I don't think farming is difficult to start.
Imagine some ancient guy picking some fruit, eating it and throwing away the fruits core. As a creature of habits, he used to throw away the discarded cores to the same place, and some time latter he notices that a new plant starts to grow on that place, and it's the same kind of plant as the one that he used to eat.
That would be enough for an inquisitive person to try to repeat the process, throwing away the fruit cores to a different place to see if another plant would appear.
Once he confirmed it, he could try it with different plants, or maybe he would try to understand why that happened, reaching the conclusion that only part of the fruit core was needed, and that part looked the same in all plants, even small grass like plants like wheat.