GGR329H5 Final: GGR329 final exam.docx

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How were these qualities achieved: horses can be used as farm animals providing not only food and fertilizer but also load- bearing power and transport- transforming the productivity of the land. Whereas llams only provided meat, wool, and fertilizer for south americans, however, llamas aren"t load- bearing animals. Why were bottle gourds domesticated (probably) long before any plant was domesticated for food purposes: maize, rice and wheat, *the seeds grew larger; *the rachis which binds the seeds together became less brittle so whole ears of grass, rather than individual seeds, could be gathered; *the leaf-like glumes that covered each seed loosened, thus making the grains free- threshing: livestock (source of) Problems captive breeding (cheetah"s mating rituals: growth rate (quick) 3: hasty disposition (african buffalos, hippos, zebra, tendency to panic (deer and antelope floe, sheep and goals stand their ground) Overlapping home ranges: why does h. f. dobyns argue that the first europeans who moved inland into the.