In all, of the world’s 148 big wild terrestrial herbivorous mammals—the candidates for domestication—only 14 passed the test. Why did the other 134 species fail? To which conditions was Francis Galton referring, when he spoke of those other species as 'destined to perpetual wildness'? | Jared Diamond | Guns, Germs, and Steel

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In all, of the world’s 148 big wild terrestrial herbivorous mammals—the candidates for domestication—only 14 passed the test. Why did the other 134 species fail? To which conditions was Francis Galton referring, when he spoke of those other species as 'destined to perpetual wildness'?

-- Jared Diamond