BIOL 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Iberian Peninsula, Upper Paleolithic, Impermanence
12 Nov 2016
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Up to about 10 000 years ago homo sapiens populations jumped off. A lot of things were happening during this expansion. New climates, new food, new diseases meaning a lot of people were not adapted and they died (natural selection). Those that were adapted to these changes were able to survive and pass on their genes. Whole masses of evolution took place in relatively isolated areas. People travelled but for the most part they stayed within their local area. Hence different forms of evolution resulted in different phenotypes and behaviors for the groups. The evolutionary roots of racism: neanderthals (northern latitude) met with homo sapiens who arrived in europe (previously from. 40 000 bp upper paleolithic - signs of the great leap forward, cultural and technological innovation. First evidence of art, specialized tools and language. Thought we left africa into the middle east and then to the iberian peninsula.
