ANTHRBIO 373 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Biological Interaction, Fitness Landscape, Homo Habilis

• School: U of M
• Department: Anthropology, Biological
• Course: ANTHRBIO 373
• Professor: John Kingston

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Test 1- anthrobio 373 humans and climate change. Humans have adaptive success however there are environments we are less adaptive too: high altitudes. Its not about morphology it is more behavioral. Through our adaptive success we undermine the complex earth system: comes with a cost changing planetary boundaries (overpopulating, etc. ) We innovate our way out of problems (ex. Evolution is an explosive radiation of diversity not linear: genetics tells us that there were other human species that we coexisted with 50,000 years ago. Savannah hypothesis notion that humans evolve from other apes that were living in a forest, there was a climate change and left open grasslands and the apes had to adapt to their new environment. Laws of evolution: uniformitarianism (cid:858)prese(cid:374)t is ke(cid:455) to the past(cid:859) Biological systems are a little more complicated: evolution is uncertain acknowledge it. Relative adaption how organisms evolve and change is not necessarily due to natural selection.