Have humans been "domesticated"?

What exactly you mean by: survive in the wild? You can only survive in the wild if someone teaches you how to do so. That is the difference between living by instinct mostly or living by what you is teached mostly. First case are mostly animals, second case are human being. If you teach the child what he can eat, how to brush teeth with a stick from a tree, how to build a hut, which plants can heal, what ar the dangers but also benefits of nature he will survive.

I sure do! I believe the odds would be totally against the child, but it has happened in the past and I'm quite sure it could happen again. I watched a documentary once about children who had been raised by animals. There was a case a long time ago during the 1930's I believe, where a young boy had been found running wild with wolves. He was so wild that his behavior was that of a wild animal and they could never really "reach him". Then there were a few more recent cases. One was here in the US, where a little girl had been thrown outside in the dog pen and her parents left her there. The dogs nurtured here and basically raised her. When the parents had finally been discovered for chid abuse, the little girl had the mannerisms of a dog. She walked on all fours, breathed with her tongue hanging out of her mouth, scratched herself like a dog, and even barked and growled. She was helped more than the boy raised by wolves, but still got along better with dogs than humans. Then there's been several cases in Russia of parents running out on their extremely young children, and packs of dogs raising them. All these children never function properly in normal society, unless they've been found before the critical age. Most of the time they've been discovered too late. You see when a child's brain is developing during it's very early years, they need human contact and brain stimulation, without that they become either mentally challenged, or in the case of those children raised by animals, wild and animalistic. As far as taking a three-year-old, for example, and throwing it in the middle of a jungle...I highly doubt it would survive more than a couple of days tops without receiving some form of help by some form of creature. It would most probably be eaten by something before the first night was over. Here is a link to the story of one of the children I spoke of: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(feral_child) The name of the documentary which I was referring to was called Wild Child: The Story of Feral Children. You can view it on YouTube if you wish. I hope this helped!

hi joesphP A human baby would still need someone to feed it and care for it till it was old enough to know how to surviv but no I do not think human babies can survive being taught by a wolf or other animal. I know there have been fantastic fiction stores about babies being taught by other animals b ut thats all just fiction. In reality a baby would die out in the wild without its parents to feed, train and protect it. human babies are not wolf babies or wild dog babies.No a human b aby cannot survive in the wild without its human parents. this Is the way I think at least.

I think it is true, because we as a humans are warm blooded animals, therefore, we can adjust easily unto our surroundings... Imagine Tarzan, he managed to be the lord of the Apes....

Probably not, since this "feeding" would probably take place in a modern human environment, and so the child would become accustomed to the comforts you mentioned. Also, even children who are raised by wild animals are not surviving alone in the wild, so no, I do not think that a human child could survive in the wild on its own.