BIO202H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Siberian Husky, Chagas Disease, Triatominae
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Lecture 10: animals and environment (1) hominids and animals. 4 million years of hominid brain evolution, tool use, and type of food consumed *diagram* Stone tools to advanced tools such as spears, hooks and use of fire: use of tools as adaptations to new environments allowed us to take charge of environment and use it to our advantage. Allows us to use animals very differently than other species agriculture, domestication of animals. Domestication land mammals and plants to freshwater animals to marine animals. *diagram: domestication of animals to be brought up as pets, trained, or cultivated for food, e. g. Siberian huskies evidence they were very important in communities dogs and had same burial size as owners. Agriculture has changed climate history on earth and introduced environmental changes (2) malaria. West nile, dengue, malaria, zika use mosquitoes as vectors *diagram* Plague small mammals as vectors via fleas cities used to be very dirty and rodents carried bacteria.
