ANTH 1010H Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Pastoralism
3 Sep 2013
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Every factor that impinges on the life chances of the individual, not merely the obvious constraints of predators, food, and shelter. The process by which organisms or populations of organisms make biological or behavioural adjustments that facilitate their survival and reproductive success in their environment. Individual units of hereditary information passed from parent to offspring as discrete particles according to certain regular patterns. The cycle of matter and energy that includes all living things and links them to the non-living. The ability of an ecosystem to undergo change while still maintaining its basic elements or relationships. The ability of an ecosystem to return to equilibrium after disturbances. The environmental requirements and tolerances of a species; sometimes seen as a species". A subsistence form in which food-getting is dependent on naturally occurring resources, especially wild plants, but also fishing and hunting wild game.
