PL SC221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Original Affluent Society, Neanderthal, Homo Sapiens
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Gathered wild plants and fished the local animals. Generally nomadic move to where food and water is most available. When it"s gone they have to more to another area that has a food source. Use more than 100 plants and 50 animals. Children and old people are supported by the group. About 10,000 yrs ago our ancestors began to farm. Man has been farming for less than 1% of our time on earth. 4% of homo sapiens have lived in an industrialized world. Now believe that settled agriculture occurred in several parts of the world at around the same time. Cultivation the deliberate sowing or management of plants (do not necessarily differ from wild populations) (2. ) Domestication the human modification of a plant/animal one that is identifiably different from its wild ancestors and its wild relatives. Developed concept of centres of origin of species: Where maximum morphological and physiological variation for a species occurs.
