ANTHR101 Lecture 17: Chapter 8 (Lecture and Textbook All)
10 Mar 2017
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End of the pleistocene: were living in band societies highly mobile, more egalitarian, no centralized power, no levels of stratification, etc. Why did humans change: population pressure. Human dependence on culture is much a requirement for survival as it is a source of freedom. Fa(cid:272)tors that do(cid:374)"t depe(cid:374)d o(cid:374) the (cid:374)atural e(cid:374)(cid:448)iro(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t alo(cid:374)e: features of a group"s (cid:272)ultural traditio(cid:374, external influences due to unpredictable historical encounters with other human groups. Is a form of niche construction the(cid:455)"re manipulating/changing the environment of the organism. Illustrates that species need not be related to one another only as predator and prey together, mutualistic species achieve higher biological fitness than either could have achieved on its own. Hu(cid:374)ti(cid:374)g (cid:449)as a high e(cid:374)erg(cid:455) a(cid:272)ti(cid:448)it(cid:455) that (cid:449)as(cid:374)"t al(cid:449)a(cid:455)s su(cid:272)(cid:272)essul. Dogs were the first domesticated animals earliest evidence for their domestication dates to around human involvement with the herd. Other animals domesticated to provide food rather than to help get food.
