The book Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel is about how many different things contributed to the success of societies versus the destruction of other societies. The book starts out with the author‚ Jared Diamond‚ in New Guinea talking to a New Guinean politician named Yali. Yali asked Diamond "Why white men developed so much cargo…" Diamond was determined to seek an answer to Yali’s question. Diamond surrounds his answer on how History followed different courses for different people because of differences among
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Kenneth Molander Harris ASB 222 10/19/14 The Upper Paleolithic time in human history is the final segment of the stone-age following the Lower and Middle Paleolithic times. During this time‚ homo sapien sapiens appear to have made tremendous strides like no time before it. Archaeologists have found ancient bones and artifacts all around the world which help them to paint a picture of ancient humans at different time periods. Using radiocarbon dating they can find out how old these bones and artifacts
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for new food sources Hunter-gatherers: Nomadic groups whose food supply depends on hunting and collecting plants Neolithic Revolution: Agricultural revolution Slash & Burn Farming: Cutting trees & grasses and burning them to clear a field Domestication: Taming of animals I – Early Advances in Technology & Art a) Tools Needed to Survive People of OSA were nomads; Cro-Magnons were hunter gatherers Technological revolution: Stone‚ bone‚ & wood used to create tools b) Artistic Expression
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shows humans beginning to control nature. When enough food was available‚ people started settling down resulting into more complex developments belonging to civilisation. Soon after settling down the domestication of animals began. Only 14 of the animals during that time were suitable for domestication. Some requirements for the animals (not all animals had all these attributes) were: Power used in travel and agriculture (e.g. horse)‚ relatively short maturing time‚ the ability to produce food
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Prologue: Yali’s Question Jared Diamond has done extensive field work in New Guinea. His indigenous New Guinean politician friend Yali asked why whites had been so successful and arrived with so much "cargo" compared to the locals. Diamond rephrases this question: why did white Eurasians dominate over other cultures by means of superior guns‚ population-destroying germs‚ steel‚ and food-producing capability? Diamond’s main thesis is that this occurred not because of racial differences in intelligence
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In “Hunting The Great Stag”‚ the rise in popularity of animal domestication can be seen through the large central animal in the picture. We can see that the size difference between the animal and the humans is very large. This suggests that animals were a very prized part of neolithic culture because they were a source
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A usual side effect of domestication is that the organisms acquire a dependency so that they lose their ability to survive in the wild. An example of domestication is dogs and sheep. Dogs were domesticated for the purpose of being a companion/partner while sheep were domesticated for the production of a valuable resource: wool. Plants can be
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and animals. Humans relied on these resources to survive. The resources (plants and animals) also started to depend on humans to survive. As humans continued to control nature‚ they were able to enjoy more relaxing and enjoyable activities. The domestication of plants and animals in the the Fertile Crescent during the Neolithic era caused dramatic changes to the environment‚ which threatened humans viable food
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RadioLab “New Nice” This episode analyzed the domestication of animals. It details an experiment performed by a Russian Darwinian geneticist named Dmitri Belyaev. Belyayev wanted to understand how domestication occurs. It seems like a simple question but the results were very interesting. He used silver foxes for his experiment. He had one control group and one experimental group. With the experimental group he controlled which ones were able to breed. The ones that were able to breed did not show
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manufacture and management have started to renew the human-animal relationship. Another topic relation to animal that strikes a curiosity for anthropologists is the act of domestication. Anthropologist question whether the act of domestication is appropriate to continue in the future and if it is then to what extent is domestication is allowed. With anthropologist studying ideas such as these‚ it is evident the further study of the animal will certainly redefine the human-animal relationship and lead
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