GEOG 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Na-Dene Languages, Aleut, Inuit
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Ishi - 1911 most distinct biogeographic regions: australia, s am. California indians developed good boats didn"t become great navigators largest fractino of land drained by 1 river system. Nearctic is the least distinctive region no endemic mammals families. Strait very few mammals colonized eurasia from north america the wren went from n am to all over eurasia, from japan to ireland one sided exchange with eurasia: faunal domination. Eu species that more competition in eurasia megafaunal instinction giant ground sloths, horses, camels, tapirs, capybaras, short faced bear, giant vultures all went extinct. Harrir"s mountain goat came from grand canyon from the north, while. People native americans closely related to central and south american people most uniform people of any continent like east asians, where they originally came from. Languages there were 187 languages when europeans arrived. Eskimo-aluet spoken by inuits and aleuts well defined family closest to bering strait still, probably most recent arrival (4k y/a)
