MMW 11 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Paleolithic, Neolithic, Homo Erectus

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 11
• Professor: Edmond Chang

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Week one: mackey pp1-14 e: the earliest human societies. To understand the early human past: ppl originated from africa, retreat of glaciers led to domestication of plants and animals. Larger brain enable ppl to adapt new environment and face new challenges. Natural selection cause dissimilarity and new species can be formed. Species( developed in 18th century europe) : a group of organisms that can interbreed with one another and produce fertile offspring for both sex. Humans were in the animal kingdom, the order of primates, the family. Paleolithic era:or old stone age during which ppl use stones to make tools to . Neolithic era: or new stone age, when ppl started domestication and agriculture. 9000 b. c. e transition between new stone age and old stone age. Pleistocene: began about 2. 5 million years ago and is marked by repeated advances in glaciers. Helps ppl to migrate to other places separated by sea. Holocene: last 12 thousand years: hominid evolution.