ANT415H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Canidae, Dentition, Dentin
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Sa paragraph or two - 3-5 marks. 2 la page or page and a half 10 marks - pick2 out or 3 or4. Definitions: agriculture: intensive cultivation of plant foods, use animal power; dependent, pastoralism: subsistence system based on herding of animals, animal husbandry: breeding and raising of livestock. Culture: why did people domesticate animals, how domesticated animals were integrated into, and may have influenced human societies. Process of domestication: capture, taming, control of breeding. Characteristics for successful domestication: species must be at the bottom of the food chain, fast growth rate-mature early, no elaborate courtship ritual, organized social structure with dominance hierarchy. Characteristics of domesticated animals: variability, social behaviour, contexts in which they occur, tolerance of close confinement. Experimental domestication: animals in anthropogenic environments face strong selection on behaviour seen across classes, stronger the anthropogenic environment, the faster the change.
