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🧵Many wild ancestors of domesticated animals are either extinct or critically endangered. Why is this?
Most famous: The Auroch (Bos primigenius) once ranged across Eurasia and is the ancestor of every strain of domesticated cattle (Bos taurus). The last one died in 1627.
John Russell Pope's rejected Lincoln Memorial designs, 1912:
1) an Egyptian pyramid.
2) a ziggurat.
3) a Maya pyramid-temple.
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