GEOG 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Copia (Museum), Germination, Smallpox
9 Aug 2020
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Among the non african population there is a 1-4% to have neanderthal dna. 7 center of domestication (where the ancestor of certain plants and animal today originated from: asia, europe, south americas. 10000 years ago the independent center of agricultural aggregation originated. Changed the human relationship with the environment. Relying on the ability to find animal and plants they could eat. Today the entire planet is sustained by agriculture. Agriculture is the domestication of wild species. Taking a pot of land changing its values. Most vegetation cannot be eaten by our species. About 0. 1% of all vegetation that grows on a pot of land will be something humans can eat. At least 90% that occupy a farm now is edible for humans. Expand the ability to produce food and support population. An irony that almost all study suggest that our pre agricultural ancestor had an easier life. People who hunt and gather spend less time finding eating and preparing food.
