BIOLOGY 1M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Habitat Destruction, Annual Plant, Mountain Pine Beetle
11 Aug 2018
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Norse did not learn from the inuit and died out because of shortage of food amidst an abundance of food that could have been hunted. Culture: info stored in brains that is acquired by imitation, teaching or some other form of social learning that is capable of affecting behaviour or some other aspect of the individuals phenotypes. Meme: a unit of cultural info (belief or value) transmit by imitation or learning: culture spreads through the survival and persistence of memes in a form of cultural evolution. Our human brain evolved to resolve issues encountered during our eea. Selection has not favoured caring for our environment. Wetland losses: wetlands disappear, drained for commercial development including agricultural lands, drained for pest management. Estuary degradation: habitat destruction, rising sea levels. Excessive nutrient and sewage inputs o leading to eutrophication, hypoxia, and anoxia chemical contamination. Tropical wet forests: tropical wet forests are extremely rich in species.
