Hunter-gatherers

"Criminal offenders are essentially hunter-gatherers; they forage for opportunities to commit crimes," said Brantingham. "The behaviors that a hunter-gatherer uses to choose a wildebeest versus a gazelle are the same calculations a criminal uses to choose a Honda versus a Lexus." What he means by this is based on the cost to benefit ratio, a criminal…

today. As evolution moves toward the modern man we are introduced to the homo erectus and the homo neanderthal. They were basically cavemen. They had an improved posture and a mental delay. Though most importantly, these creatures developed a hunter-gatherer society and they made and used tools. This is a remarkable improvement to man’s societal habits which did not necessarily exist until the homo erectus/homo neanderthal…

In very remote times, when man was hunter and gatherer, the environment was clean and nature had no harm. But with the passage of time as the needs of man increase, nature suffers more damage because of the power that he is exerting on it. Humans beings able to modify and transform the environment according to our needs, and even to create artificial means. It was with the Industrial Revolution that humans began certainly change the planet, the nature of its atmosphere and the quality of its…

Two hundred thousand years ago humans thrived on a paleolithic diet. They were healthy and thin, and their bodies were efficient in running, hunting, fighting sickness, and processing the foods they ate. They evolved on a diet that kept them at their peak physical state, trim and energized to face the dangers of their world. Now modern humans can lose extra weight and get back to their peak physique just by giving their body the paleolithic nutrition that it craves. For this caveman diet,…

Have you ever thought about how Europe became such a large empire? Jared Diamond, a UCLA professor, explains on the TV program Guns, Germs, and Steel, that it is due to geographic luck. Geographic luck is the term used to describe the phenomenon of the fact that people in some areas are just luckier than others. For instance, the Fertile Crescent got nutritious wheat and barley while Papua New Guinea got sago palm. However, Professor Diamond has the right idea. Geographic luck shaped the path to…

Today's society is based on class. Rather different forms of class relation than the past, however. The relationships that individuals have with each other in order to fulfill basic needs is quite an important subject to cover when discussing a nation. The interest to be delved into at the moment is the development of classes in Japan, especially during the Yayoi and Kofun periods. The obvious stages of class development are primitive communalism, feudalism and capitalism. A class is a group of…

Diabetes is a disease where sugar levels increase drastically due to the lack of insulin production or incorrect response, which usually converts glucose into energy. Diabetes affects multiple organ systems, including the digestive system, endocrine, immune, muscular/skeletal, nervous, and excretory. During digestion, when food enters the first part of the small intestine, the pancreas is in charge of releasing enzymes, such as insulin, to assist in digesting the fat, protein, and carbohydrates…

forms. To enumerate some, the list is: forced labor, forced marriage, dependent slaves, military slaves, illegal immigrant slavery, sex slaves, religious slaves, and the list keeps going. Slavery can be traced back as far as the hunter-gatherers societies. These hunters employed slaves for daily chores to achieve needed prerequisites. Trafficking slaves is a multi billion dollar industry, especially involving sex slaves, jungle slaves, or poor whites used for cheap…

FROM HAND TO MOUTH Michael C. Corballis (1) Imagine trying to teach a child to talk without using your hands or any other means of pointing of gesturing. The task would surely be impossible. There can be little doubt that bodily gestures are involved in the development of language, both in the individual and in the species. Yet, once the system is up and running, it can function entirely on vocalizations, as when two friends chat over the phone and create in each other’s minds a world of events…

According to the US National Park Service: “About ten thousand years ago the last Valley glacier that melted and created a shallow lake, which is Lake Yosemite. Lake Yosemite eventually filled in with silt, leaving today's level Valley floor.” Rocks also make up a lot of Yosemite, as it is mostly made up of plutonic igneous rocks. Granite, granodiorite, tonalite, Yosemite Valley first started forming Eighty to twenty-five million years ago. The causes that contributed to this great formation…