SOC263H5 Lecture 3: GGR329 Lecture 3 0127.docx
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H g populations stable because: meagreness of resources, low fat intakes, might have resulted in, low birth rate, spontaneous abortions, farmer power (chapter 4, today, most people consume food produced by others, livestock (& farmed fish, crops, some wild food. Key points about rise of agriculture: most 200,000 wild flowering plants are useless, indigestible, poisonous, low nutritional value, tedious to prepare, difficult to gather, dangerous to hunt, not digestible. Key points rise of agriculture: usable species of, plants, animals, cultivated land 90, wild land 0. 1, agriculture can sustain lot more people. Livestock (source of: meat, milk products, fertilizers (manure, land transport, leather, wool, other materials (bones, sinews, bladders, etc. , military assault vehicles, plow traction, germs that killed previously unexposed people. Early farmers didn"t understand genetics, but began selecting for: size, taste (bitterness; poisonous, fleshiness, oiliness, fibre length, but what is good for humans might not necessarily be good for survival in the wild
