(1) Originated when humans domesticated plants and animals. b. Crop – Any plant cultivates by humans. 1. Hunters and Gatherers.…
When an organism is domesticated, it loses its ability to live in the wild. Animals may be domesticated to be a pet or to be used for work. For example, horses are domesticated to work on farms and cats are domesticated to be…
While doing research for Guns Germs and Steel, Diamond encountered a man from the island of Papua New Guinea. The man stated “Why you white men have so much cargo while we New Guineans have so little?” (Diamond 3) The answer to this question is simply answered, they have better geography. Some societies develop faster than others because of how their geographical location affects their ability to grow and advance.…
“This escape is domestication when the ordinary balance of nature was broken and food was made to grow not by nature but by man. He’s claiming that with domestication can restore the natural…
Domestication of both animals and plants happen during the evolution of hunter-gatherers in the beginning to farming in the end. In the development of both these types of techniques to get resources we also developed a feel of human civilization. From Hunter-Gatherers to Farmers we have seen the changes of influences in the world we live in today. There are many advantages and disadvantages in hunter-gatherers, farmers, and the effects it has on humanities dealing with society and technology. Hunter-Gatherers had strong differences from today's society of agriculture and cities.…
The domestication of animals also allowed for farmers to more effectively farm their land (Diamond 74). However, not all places had land that was suitable for the development of agricultural practices that would produce enough food surplus for the people to have specialists that could create better weapons, better farming techniques, etc. that would lead to organized politics (Diamond 58-62). Some places did not have enough land or the land was not suitable to crops, or at least the crops they had domesticated up to that point (Diamond 57). The available amount of arable land not only limited how much food was available, but also limited the population that could live in that area (Diamond 57).…
In Western culture, very few, if any at all, cats are used in a utilitarian sense; we no longer need to keep them around to kill rodents and protect our food supplies. The modern Western feline has essentially no economic value whatsoever; the way we are using the word domestication has shifted from perpetuating the utilitarian idea of a symbiotic relationship between animal and human to a relationship where, in a utilitarian sense, nothing is gained. In Western society today, domesticated cats are bred with the sole purpose to “exaggerate, diminish, or shape a variety of other characteristics, such as temperament, body shape, fattiness, the possession of horns, muscling, the presence or absence of body hair, and fur and eye color” (Palmer…
Living around domesticated animals granted an immunity to smallpox and other diseases and with the new addition of steel, it made some civilizations virtually unstoppable to smaller and less developed civilizations…
This led to a more innovative and an advanced society. The people learned different uses of the animals such as for the military, which led to the making of weapons. D. Chapter 6: What factors contributed to hunter-gatherers becoming farmers? Hunter-gatherers had traded with other farmers who had given them the idea of food production. Also, there was a “decline in the availability of wild foods” (Diamond, 110), and the resources they depended on decreased.…
Which leaves the rest of the world at a huge disadvantage. With no domesticated animals. Domesticated animals are a huge plus for a civilization because they can be used for food, milk, clothing and for hard labor. Not all animals can be turned into a domesticated animal. There are certain requirements that have to be meet if you want an animal to benefit the civilization.…
‘Some human groups adapt to a new way of life. Others go after the bison’ [http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab63#ixzz3n8mZaeVA]. For those natives that decided to pursue a new way of life learnt quickly that they would have to adapt their means of gathering food, they soon discovered that ‘plants of all kinds grow more easily in the new temperate zones’, they also ‘learned that they could grow these plants where they wanted by collecting and planting the seeds from these wild plants’. As well as their new found farming skills, the natives would also go on to learn to domesticate animals, such as llama and…
Conformity can leave someone blind to reality and seeing what other people can’t can lead to nonconformity. Although conformity can end in a negative outcome there are specific cases in which both conformity and nonconformity are positive and beneficial to society. In the novel Animal Farm, Boxer, a very work- focused horse, is a prime example of a conformist. All throughout the novel Boxer puts himself through so much suffering only so that the farm strives and becomes great, he does end up dying but is still left the farm with a positive effect. In retrospect Mahatma Gandhi was a nonconformist and an activist.…
Positive Companions 2 Positive Effects of Animal Companions Almost every household has one of their own endearing, friendly companions, but how do these cute, and charming creatures fit in so well with most households? Pets are viewed as a form of companionship, but they are so much more than that. Throughout time, people have learned that animals can serve as something bigger than just a cute face to many people in society. Because animals have such a strong sense to please it makes it easy for them to learn how to help people in different ways.…
The article, “The Globalization of Animal Welfare: More Food Does Not Require More Suffering”, written by Miyun Park and Peter Singer, poses an important ethical argument. Within the reading, Park and Singer discuss the excessive mistreatment of animals. After reading the disgusting facts and information about this topic, I will argue that animals that are raised for food need better welfare because it will be beneficial to the animals and the consumers. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that any human species should not be excluded from moral concerns (Park and Singer 28).…
In the world today, people cannot do without animals because they have become an essential part of human existence to both vegetarians and meat eaters. Some animals serve as pet, and some serve as food, and others are used for sports and laboratory experiments. Although some animal activist advocates for animal rights, there are limits to that right because animals cannot be equal with human. They don’t have the intellectual ability that humans have to take responsibilities and control what happens around them. These animals are important in the society and the need to treat them with respect is paramount.…