Chapter 13: Our Past 10,000 Years: Agriculture, Population, Biology

Anth 1020 Text book questions

What changes occurred in human detention due to the ways humans began domesticating and processing their food?

Teeth became overcrowded

What two factors were likely significant drivers of domestication?

Human population pressure and climate change

Where did plant domestication first occur?

Southwest Asia

What led to increase in births with the switch from foraging to farming?

younger weaning age

Outcome from the adoption of agriculture

environmental degradation

General change observed in the bones of agriculturalists compared with hunter-gatherers?

less osteoarthritis

How does the health of agriculturalists compare to the health of hunter-gatherers?

Agriculturalists have higher rates of dental caries.

What is the adaptive trade-off of agriculture?

more individuals surviving to reproductive age, but a decline in human health

How did the adoption of agriculture affect infectious disease?

It caused an increase in infectious disease.

How might climate change affect future generations of humans?

It will lead to a decrease in the world food supply.

An example of human activity as a dominant evolutionary force?

the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria

What is true regarding evolution in the future?

It will continue in all forms in all living organisms.