ANTH 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Pleistocene, Iron-Deficiency Anemia, Midwestern United States
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This dramatic change in lifeway is associated with the period called the neolithic= the late. Population pressure: changes in climate and ecology would not have resulted in plant and animal domestication without people, pattern suggests that as human population size grew, people likely needed more food than hunting and gathering could provide. This suggests that humans had to develop a new strategy for feeding the ever-growing world population: domestication once again shows humans" remarkable flexibility in new and challenging circumstances. Like most other technological innovations, agriculture spread by diffusion out of the primary centers, usually for very long distances. (ex: corn spread from its primary center in mexico to the. Agriculture: an adaptive trade-off: nothing would be possible without an agricultural economic base. Environmental degradation: the consequences of environmental degradation, like those of extreme population growth, are well documented by historians and ecologists for recent human history.
