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H. sapiens have been able to expand their frontiers to all terrestrial environments around the world for a myriad of reasons. Firstly, H. sapiens are both hunters and gatherers, and the resource of food can essentially keep them alive for an extended period of time. Furthermore, fire has enabled humans to adapt to various cold climates. Humans are able to utilize their abstract thinking to provide solutions to the problem at hand, rather than mere instinctual reactions (building shelter, creating languages.)  H. sapiens modify their environment with technology to make said location more habitable, like current people have done today with air conditioning and water filters.Moreover, the remaining group of H. sapiens who survived the drought were few yet the absolute most fit, with a multitude of biological adaptations. Some biological responses to environment change include genetic change (over short/long periods of time) and acclimatization, process where organism is able to survive through the change in environment.
  
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The Homo Sapiens evolved in Africa around 200,000 years ago. They gathered and hunted food, and evolved behaviors that helped them respond to the challenges of survival in unstable environments. The reason for this is that at that time Africa was covered with rain forests, but as time went on the rain forests shrunk forcing the Homo Sapiens to adapt. As they adapted they were able to live in a large diversity of habitats. The main reason Homo Sapiens adapted was that they could not survive in a certain environment anymore because it had drastically changed, so they were forced to either move, adapt, or die. This allowed them to settle in diverse habitats.  
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In Class Resource: various videos
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External Source: http://anthro.palomar.edu/adapt/adapt_1.htm
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Photo: http://www.hvac.com/resource-center/air-conditioning/articles/types-of-air-conditioning-units,
  
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-Louisa

Latest revision as of 21:51, 21 October 2015

Return to History 8 Human Origins Concepts H. sapiens have been able to expand their frontiers to all terrestrial environments around the world for a myriad of reasons. Firstly, H. sapiens are both hunters and gatherers, and the resource of food can essentially keep them alive for an extended period of time. Furthermore, fire has enabled humans to adapt to various cold climates. Humans are able to utilize their abstract thinking to provide solutions to the problem at hand, rather than mere instinctual reactions (building shelter, creating languages.) H. sapiens modify their environment with technology to make said location more habitable, like current people have done today with air conditioning and water filters.Moreover, the remaining group of H. sapiens who survived the drought were few yet the absolute most fit, with a multitude of biological adaptations. Some biological responses to environment change include genetic change (over short/long periods of time) and acclimatization, process where organism is able to survive through the change in environment.

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In Class Resource: various videos External Source: http://anthro.palomar.edu/adapt/adapt_1.htm Photo: http://www.hvac.com/resource-center/air-conditioning/articles/types-of-air-conditioning-units,

-Louisa

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