ANTH 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12-1: Overfishing, Selective Breeding
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Chapter 12: our last 10,000 years: agriculture, population, biology. Valley: early agriculture-based settlements of jericho and atalh y k, in israel and turkey, grew from tiny villages consisting to the first cities, domestication of rice in china as early as domestication in levant. Spread of corn from central america to atlantic: spread occurred not through people carrying corn, but through people describing their agricultural successes to neighbors, those neighbors telling their neighbors, and so forth. Survival and growth: domestication formed foundation for rise of complex societies and sophisticated technology. Superfoods = cereal grains, such as rice, corn, and wheat, that make up a substantial portion of the human population"s diet today. Population growth: negative: increase in population size and the demands that the increase places on the environment, overpopulation competition, as towns and cities began to compete for increasingly limited resources, organized warfare developed.
