Domestication

Proposed Method Participants The proposed participants in this study will be recruited based on convenience sampling. A majority of the proposed participants will be female college students at Texas Christian University (TCU). However, in attempts to broaden the study, female TCU college students will be encouraged to bring female friends and family members with them for participation in the study. Participants in the study must be at least 18 years of age, and there will be no maximum age…

Egypt and Australia: The Power Behind European Domination Treading along the shore with Jared Diamond, New Guinean local politician Yali casually asks, "Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?" (Diamond 14) As a response to Yali, Jared Diamond first negates the assumption that the biological differences in humans from different parts of the globe affected the rate of development of their civilizations…

Chinese legend says that five thousand years ago Chinese society was founded by many rulers. Fu Xi introduced family life as well as hunting, fishing, and the domestication of animals to China. His successor, Shen Nong was supposedly the one who brought agriculture to the Chinese people. Finally, Huang Di is credited for having created the Chinese writing system as well the bow and arrow. The things that all three mythical founders created represent some of the core values still held in China to…

Artificial selection has been employed for centuries in the context of domestication. Dogs were primarily selected for an ability to interact well with humans, thus enabling them to succeed in the human realm (McGreevy & Nicholas 1999). Most of the traits subject to artificial selection were initially for functionality. However…

this issue. According to “Lactose Intolerance and Malabsorption”, The ability to digest lactose is clearly associated with evolutionary pressures. During the Neolithic period, human adults began drinking milk, probably in association with animal domestication. The ancient pastoralists who originated in the Euphrates Valley were nomadic, constantly in search of new pastures. Presumably they migrated in two main directions: northwest toward Europe and southwest toward Central Africa. When this…

The approval of AquAdvantage Salmon to be sold in U.S. markets represents a new concept in the agricultural market: selling genetically modified animals. It marks the first time that a company has been permitted to sell GM animals for food by the U.S. government. AquAdvantage is an Atlantic salmon that has had genes added to its genome from both “Pacific chinook salmon… [and] ocean pout.” It was created by “Massachusetts-based AquAdvantage,”who want to start selling the product in widespread…

All for One? Or One for All? Introduction. In this paper, I will be taking on Peter Singer’s argument against speciesism. I will be doing this by first presenting his argument in Section I, then follow up with clarifying any words that need to be disambiguated. Section II will consist of my objection to this point in effort to counter it. Section III will include a possible response Singer would give for this raised objection. My main argument for Singer’s argument against speciesism considers…

The Nubian civilization, modern day Sudan, is arguably the most ancient civilization in Africa, with initial settlements in the territory dated as far back as 8200 BC. The innovations and technological improvements pioneered by the Nubian culture, over time, would spread throughout the continent (most notably into Egypt). Among these advances were the establishment of efficient food production, dogma that would lay the foundations for Egyptian concepts of the afterlife and the birth of material…

Trepanation is one of the oldest know surgical techniques. It was practiced in countries all over the world but seems to have originated from places in and around Europe. Trepanning is the process of drilling, grooving, boring and cutting or scraping a hole, usually no bigger than an inch or so, into a person’s head, therefore exposing the dura matter and allowing brain tissue to freely pulsate –increasing blood flow. Figure 1 shows the four methods, 1-scraping 2-grooving 3- boring and cutting…

Basic Characteristics The Land Around 5,000 years ago along the River Nile for almost 30 centuries (BBC History) Nile River flooded between July to October History Hieroglyphs (Written language) decoded 2,000 years later (BBC History) Alexander the Great takes Egypt in 332 B.C (BBC History) Three Kingdoms: The Old Kingdom, The Middle Kingdom, and The New Kingdom. Information about their governments in “VI. Ancient Egyptian Government and Hierarchy” (Britannica) Egyptian Writing and Language…