[PSYC14H3] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (63 pages long)
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Some differences in manners of the past reflect changing norms that are quite arbitrary as to what is considered polite. The kinds of foods that are available within a given ecology affect the kinds of foraging behaviours that people engage in. Similarly, in cultures in which the environment is more benign and food is plentiful and more easily acquired, more androgynous gender roles are more likely to emerge. Proximal causes: those that have direct and immediate relations with their effects. The birth of agriculture enabled formerly nomadic people to adopt sedentary lifestyles and benefit from creating tools and artifacts because they wouldn"t have to carry them all the time now. Domestication of various animals species in the fertile cresent caused humans in. Eurasia to live in close proximity with animals for thousands of years but this also led to many diseases that originated in animal species to cross over and infect humans as well (measles, tuberculosis, smallpox, influenza)
