GEOG 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Overgrazing, Eragrostis Tef, Spice Trade
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Biogeography geographic distribution of plants and animals divided into zoogeography and phytogeography. 3 factors: geography (barriers to dispersal) history biology divide world into 6 regions based on zoogeography. Neotropics - south america, central am, up to isthmus of tehuantepec. Oriental - se asia (india, philippines, indonesia), tropical. Palearctic - eurasia, from ireland to japan, north africa, asia norht of the. Himalayas, sw asia antarctica doesn"t count - no life. Madagascar isn"t in ethiopian region - has distinctive lemurs and birds lacks bears, deer. Sahara used to be wetter with big lakes, easy to cross. 5/6 branches of humans are in africa only missing aboriginal australians. Khoi tall aka hot-n-tots herded cow, sheep, and goats. Madagascar look like inodensians, hav an indonesian language closely related to one on. Languages diffs between italian, french, etc. developed in last 1400 years after fall of. Fresian language of germany/denmark -> immigrated to england.