Biological Adaption Vs. Cultural Adaptation

We first started evolving when we worked with the enviorment by hearding animals, killing them, and mirgrating to new locations for example Africa to Europe and Asia. Because of our migration we spread out across the world which introduced us to knew enviorments which taught us new things. Instead of only knowing one area and being simple minded to that we’ve moved all around the world and became accustomed to many other areas and animals. Our patterns of settlement has also helped because slowly over a couple hundred years people began to realize that you can plant your own crops and they would come back every year, because of this e have learned to settle in one area, specifically by water, and stay. Being by water was another advancement from becoming simple minded to now because humans realized that being by water can attract animals, grow crops more, and provide a place to drink and bathe. Demography and disease taught us new things about different types of disease and how to treat them. For example in the Renaissance era a lot of people would throw their wastes in streets. It would get into their water and just litter the streets which cause bacteria to form and sickness to spread. Since then we realized how to control certain diseases and plagues by immunizations and to be more hygienic. Lastly our advancement in technology has

All throughout history, humans have come up with innovations that have brought both positive and negative changes to the way people live. This all started around 10,000 BCE, when people developed agriculture. The first nomads started off by moving from place to place, hunting and gathering food… but as people developed agriculture, they saved a lot more time. After agriculture developed, the humans learned many things such as farming and taming wild animals for their own use. This time in history was called the Neolithic Revolution… which lasted about 6,000 years, until 4,000 BCE. The big change in the way people got their food and how they lived, resulted to positive and negative changes of human innovations of the Neolithic Revolution. So,

Human societies are essentially branches that have grown and evolved from a much larger trunk. Societies evolve by branching off and adjusting their way of life. New civilizations face challenges going into new territories, they will face new terrains, new climates depending on how far they travel, new people that may be indigenous to the land, and more. Every society is different from one another, no two are exactly alike. For example The Maori and the Moriori both developed from the Polynesian descent. After the groups branched out and settled in their new home they begin their development into their own society. The Mariori became peaceful people who were isolated hunter gatherer while the Maori who came from a dense population of farmers who were

Humanity adapted to agriculture in the Neolithic Era; man began to plant crops instead wandering around and gathering. Farming made it easier for humans to control their food supply. Another impact to adapting to agriculture, was that it made people decide to settling down permanently, which led to the creation of villages. Furthermore,

Human existence has lasted over several million years and in that time there has been countless advances in the way we live. Human history has had many diverse periods of time, one being the Stone Age. During the Stone Age there were two major subdivisions, the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods. The Paleolithic, which lasted until about 10,000 years ago, had a significant separating factor from the Neolithic, ending in 2000 B.C.E. This factor was the way in which the people in these periods acquired food. The Paleolithic people hunted and gathered their food while the Neolithic people produced their own food by agriculture. These two different styles of obtaining food greatly affected the lifestyles of each period’s people. The

Through Biological Anthropology has shown how this process is done and the research from different geographical changes helps in the developmental change. By studying human beings within their living habit shows how the all of the different elements comes into account in the development of humans. By breaking down the different environmental differences along with the personal’s economic background with the combination with their genetic profile determines the development of the individuals. Biology Anthropology shows what all forces both internally and externally have a part in each and everyone’s development.

Prior to living in homes build to with stand the test of time, growing food their food source, and raising animals, humans were nomads who followed their food source around and were hunters and gathers. Although it took many years, from 8000B.C. to 3000B.C. for humans to go from hunters and gathers to a more common day life as we now know it, the result is referred to as the Neolithic Revolution the begins of human civilization. As the people of this time began to settle down and they began to both farm the land and domesticate animals for the better of the community. Along with the development of these communities as for the first time began to create social class among the many different roles they played in their community. Because

Culture is the primary means by which human adapt to their environment (page no.69). In reality, we create culture to solve our real-life problems. There are three survival kits for culture. They are abstraction, cooperation and production. But, my focus is on the first two.

Humans Evolving Culture in physical anthropology is known as the study of human cultures, beliefs, values, ideas, and other human behavior patterns. Culture has an influence on human evolution by adaptation due to the way humans and other living organisms adjust to new conditions and new challenges that life brings to them. However, culture also has an influence on human evolution by natural selection. Culture influences natural selection because of the way that natural selection focuses on survival and reproduction. Meaning that those with better advantageous will have a higher chance to produce more offspring.

The factor that makes slightly changes between one individual to another is the mutation. It is said that mutation occurs randomly and with no control, and by this the natural selection happens, and the individuals more suitable to the environment passes the genes, and the mutation that guaranteed the survival is going to operate in the next generation, and it keeps happening.

Sociocultural evolution is the idea that as humans evolve biologically we also evolve socially. This evolution involves technology, religion, and culture. Many theories have arisen about how sociocultural evolution works and how important it is to humankind. Three well known theories have come from Gerhard Lenski, Leslie White, and Alvin Toffler. Their theories may be very different, but they also share some similarities.

Natural selection means the animals who have weaker genetic performance than its own kind will be deselected by the nature. This allows the species to evolve and advance its breed to remain their domination in the natural society. Charles Darwin adopted this idea to explain how the species that survived for ages are the superiors ones with the most substantial genes embedded in them. However, as mankind advanced from our ancestors till now homo-sapiens, knowledge people, natural selection reoccurs among humans in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Social Darwinism was created for the purpose to make changes in the world. In the late 19th century, Social Darwinism influenced the society and created immense impacts among the

Natural selection is when organisms develop traits, so that they will be better adapted to their environment. Natural selection affects every living thing in the world. There are the examples of animals blending into their environment to hide from predators. Also there is when a thing living in a cold climate grows more hair to become warmer, and not die. Certain traits are more common in a population because the traits increase an individual's probability of surviving and reproducing.

Evolution or trade over the years takes place through the methods of natural and sexual selection. In response to troubles in our environment, we adapt each physically and psychologically to ensure our survival and replica. Sexual selection principle describes how evolution has shaped us to provide a mating advantage rather than just a survival advantage and happens via two wonderful pathways: intrasexual competition and intersexual choice. Gene choice concept, the modern rationalization behind evolutionary biology, takes place thru the desire for gene replication. Evolutionary psychology connects evolutionary ideas with present day psychology and focuses in general on mental variations: adjustments within the manner we think with the intention to enhance our survival.

Human beings are uniquely and extraordinarily wired to be adaptable. Situations or life events that change the course or flow of how humans have lived or the lifestyles they been accustom to, is constantly changing. In order for our genetic construction to counteract to these changes, the human element must reprogram itself, so to speak and rearrange the way inputs are handled to produce correlating outputs to the ambient environment. Unfortunately there are times where adaptation does not fare so well in terms of positive results: "China was far in advance of any country in Europe in a large number of fields for at least a thousand years and, as late as the sixteenth century, had the highest standard of living in the world" (Sowell, p.