BIOL 102 Lecture 2: BIOL102 Guns Germs and Steel Notes
14 Feb 2017
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Biomes: spans of habitats with unique species diversity (ie. boreal) Intersection between biogeography (which species found where, why?) and how it biases the way human civilization developed on the earth. Jared dia(cid:373)o(cid:374)d liked to look at (cid:271)irds espe(cid:272)iall(cid:455) ne(cid:449) gui(cid:374)ea"s the(cid:374) he (cid:271)e(cid:272)a(cid:373)e i(cid:374)terested i(cid:374) the people too. People lived in new guinea for over 40 000 years, one of most cultural diverse and adaptable people in the world. (cid:862)white (cid:373)e(cid:374) lots of (cid:272)argo, (cid:271)ut ne(cid:449) gui(cid:374)ea(cid:374)s ha(cid:448)e so little? (cid:863) Cargo: material goods first brought to their new world by european. Cargo was evidence of white men power, white men assumed they were genetically superior. Hunting gathering still happens in rainforest of papua new guinea. Modern us crammed with more cargo then everyone. People thrive in the middle east after the last glacial period (13000 years ago, middle east a lot more trees): people lived as hunter gatherers in small mobile groups.
