BIO 359K- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 100 pages long!)
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Humans beings and animal behavior: a brief history. As long as there have been humans, they have been observing animals. Evidence of this comes from cave paintings and remains of animals such as dogs in close proximity to human remains. Early human/animal interactions and observations were undoubtedly of an exploitive nature since humans hunt, eat, and otherwise use animals for survival. Humans have also been domesticating animals for use as food, protection, leather, wool, etc. through the process of artificial selection. (a process in which humans consciously select for or against particular features in organisms. For example, the human may allow only organisms with the desired feature to reproduce or may provide more resources to the organisms with the desired feature. This process causes evolutionary change in the organism and is analogous to natural selection, only with humans, not nature, doing the selecting. When writing became more common and natural philosophers observed animal behavior they would record their findings.
