GEO 509 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mycology, Wild Man, Stone Age
28 Nov 2016
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Our ancestors tasted many things and found the ones that tasted good, bad and could harm us. Mycology is the study of fungus mushrooms. First law of mycology is if you eat a mushroom and die it was poisonous. At one point, the archeological conviction was that there was 100,000 that left africa, but now studies sho(cid:449) it (cid:449)as o(cid:374)ly (cid:1005)(cid:1004),(cid:1004)(cid:1004)(cid:1004) or 5(cid:1004)(cid:1004) . There were things that did change one example is milk we drink past childhood and. Nothing biologically different between us and our ancestors breastfeeding. Two examples of biological adaptation: populations of hunters and gatherers (that move about) Metabolize alcohol slower, another example is teeth we cant eat grains raw require the invention of cooking (cid:862)ma(cid:374)ioc cassa(cid:448)a(cid:863) poisonous in its natural state but if you amerce it in oil, vinegars it makes in edible. Who invented agriculture (you domesticate wild species of plants and animals) - story of gilgamesh, is the first known literary text 2000 bc.
