CGS NS 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Garrett Hardin, Passenger Pigeon, De-Extinction
17 Oct 2017
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Varies by geography, family, etc. human body, adds up to several pounds: at least 10 microorganisms per cell in the human body, biogeography- where different organisms live. Fundamental evolutionary stages of humanity ( basic stages: savagery (gatherers, hunters, and foragers, barbarism (early cultivation and agricultural, villages, civilization (high culture, monumental architecture, sophisticated technology, literacy, elites)-- this last stages first reached about 3500 bce in mesopotamia. Wednesday, september 13: what is biodiversity, we need natural ecosystems to live. Garrett hardin (1915-2003), killed himself: hardin"s first law of human ecology: we can never do merely one thing. Any intrusion into nature has numerous effects, many of which are unpredictable : warned of the dangers of overpopulation: a finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero . Early view of life: our knowledge is influenced greatly by the ancient greeks, how living things began, how living things developed, how living this functioned.
