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Im sure if people made the effort over the next 1000 years chimps could be domesticated. Dogs weren't immediatly trained and safely living with humans. Domesticated dogs greatly helped humans bak inthe day, chim[ps would be more of a novelty now.

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Wolves have been domesticated within the first and second generation, though. Very big difference.

The domestication isn't perfect, but it's solid and reliable pretty much from the start. Same with things like water buffalos, goats, ducks, etc., and I imagine most of our other species. If the pay-off isn't quick, there's no profit in it; you just have another mouth to feed. Which primitive peoples or overtaxed peasants just couldn't afford.

People can deal with something that is immediately or nearly immediately able to greatly adjust its ability to get along and be managed. But who wants to do a project that is 1000 years long before there's some unknown pay-off? Better to just chop 'em up and eat 'em.