Some say the oldest known human settlement is Uruk, in modern-day Iraq. Others say Jericho, in Palestine. Wherever it is, it must be the place where synurbization—the process of wildlife adapting to ...

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Animals and humans have always coexisted. Before cities, nomadic hunter-gatherers depended on animals for food, transport, and protection. Since the agricultural revolution roughly 10,000 years ...