ANS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Homo Sapiens, Omnivore, Calorie
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Cut down on harvest time and bulk consumption by . Start of what we now consider nationalities. Divisions in labor - hunting and gathering. ~40 thousand ya - symbolic languages and diversified. Drove the intensification of land use- ~farming. Synergistic relationship between livestock, grain production and humans. Animal products more closely meet human protein needs than plant products. Vitamin b12 required in human diets, not met by plants. Yoked oxen were utliized in the near east. How we care for animals, management as a whole. Open vast areas of land for development. Huge key in the success of humans as we see them now (b/c of their impact on the increase in food production) Dog ~30,000-9000 bc (depending on which fossil evidence you consider) Non-shedding wool - may have been result of early livestock selection. Allowed nourishment to be obtained w/o sacrifice. Originated from sus scrofa (which still exists) How did the great pyramids get built.
