Effects of Global Ag first Test

Homo Sapiens emerged?

300,000 yrs ago

Behaviorally Modern Humans emerged?

100,000 years ago

Ag emerges?

10,000 yrs ago

Domestication of Potatoes began?

8000 yrs ago in Peru

Culture is?

Everything

Culture is essential for groups over?

100 people

The Big 3?

Wheat, Corn and rice

Prehistory is?

5000 years ago (before writing began)

Earliest kind of human

Early Hominins

2nd Kind of human

Austrolapithicenes

3rd Kind of humans

Homo

First tools emerged?

2 million yrs ago

Biologically Adapting

Adapting over time

Culturally Adapting

Using intellect and social skills to benefit themselves

Emerging Genus Homo

Foragers who moved together with loose gender roles+

Genetic Mutations can be caused from

Inheritance, copying error, random occurence and environmental exposure

Honey

A superfood for the Hadza

Big Game Hunter Theory

Ag developed bc we killed most of the big game animals

Extensive Ag

First kind of Ag

Vast and uses least farmer control

Intensive Ag

Uses the least amount of land and is most farmer intensive

Emergence of ag allows for

Government, writing, permanent cities, specialized workers, institutions and more technology

Arable

Growing crops

Pastoral

Rearing Animals

America’s First Cash Crop

Tobacco

John Rolfe

Got the first “sweet” tobacco strain from Spain

1800’s Crop

Cotton

Eli Whitney

Invents the Cotton Gin in Savannah Georgia

Boll Weevil

Bug that kills off over half of the cotton in Georgia

Vertical Integration

System created by Jesse Jewel where company owns the whole process

Domestication

Human influence over reproduction and care for another species

Domestication changes

Behavior, physiology and genetics

Neoteny

Retention of juvenile traits into adulthood

Red junglefowl

First domesticated animal (8000 yrs ago)

Percent of the globe that is lactose tolerant

33%

Three Sisters

Corns, Beans and squash

Monoculture

Focusing on a single crop

Judeo-Christian views on animals

dominance over animals

Islamic

Power over animals, but kill out of necessity

Hindusim and Buddhism

Same respect as humans

Code of Hammorabi

Ancient economics laws for animals

Speciesism

Preference to our own species

Since 1990’s

Animal testing has reduced in half

Since 1880’s

Elberta Peach rise in production for Georgia

Conditions for a good peach

Cold in the winter and past march does not get below 32

#1 peach state

California

h2a

visa for foreign farm workers

China

has a large pecan presence