The homo genus has really advanced use of tools stone use, fire use, etc: adaptations to environments and new uses to the environment that have evolved that have helped us be in charge of our environment. The brain size and volume and capacity have also increased to us: this coincides with evidence to more complex tool use (spears and hooks) hunting and fishing with pointy tools that needed more preparation. Domestication of animals used as pets or cultivated for food. Agriculture has also change the climate history on earth introduced environmental changes. We are able to train and breed animals so that they are the most useful for us example is sheep herding dogs. There is evidence that siberian huskies were so crucial to a community that the dogs had the same burial size as the owners. We also have a bad history with animals.