Book Review Of Biology

2. What does it mean to be human? Did your concept change after reading the book?

After reading this book, I do feel that some of my beliefs did change, however, not entirely because it provided me with information that can assist me

After reading this book the biggest take away I have gained from it is how to better interpret Ellen White’s writings. I have read many of Ellen White’s books weather in school or

2) In areas that supported crops, people began to plant there. Larger groups could live in still smaller areas. Trade routes

What Did You Expect To Learn When You Picked Up The Book? To What Extent – And How Effectively – Were Your Expectations Met?

The ability to produce more crops required a method to transport them to more people. This method was for people to clump closer together, which facilitated the spread of disease amongst communities. People migrated nearer to each other because they could receive a frequent supply of food. “The mere fact that agriculture encouraged people to clump together in crowded societies, many of which then carried on trade with other crowded societies, led to the spread of parasites and infectious disease” (65). Diamond argues that because agriculture brought people together in close proximity disease and parasites were able to spread more rapidly and frequently. Hunters and gatherers tended to spread out and keep to themselves. This ultimately eliminated the possibility of an epidemic sweeping through societies. For instance, “epidemics couldn’t take hold when populations were scattered in small bands that constantly shifted camp” (65). Among hunter-gatherer

Many factors contribute to civilization, one being job specialization. Job specialization is a job given based on strengths. Many people abandoned farming completely to make tools and prepare the produce. This not only let people strive in what they do best at, but also provided other people with instruments they needed to execute their personal jobs. Additionally, this instituted trade. It states in Document 2, “they gave them [tools and other goods] food in exchange.” This exchange, hence, started trade. They can vend what they make for food and visa-versa. Document 4 explains, how they “all work together and help one another.” To do this, individuals take on a specific task and participate in a series of exchanges to make the civilization work smoothly. During the Paleolithic Era, they could not trade, merely because they did not have a civilization. Everyone hunted and there was nothing to trade or job to do because it wasn’t

The transition to farming was a turning point in human history since people who remained hunter/gatherers couldn’t produce food as quickly as farmers, and couldn’t produce food that could be stored for a long period of time. Instead of roaming to search different locations for food, farming allowed them to drop seeds in soil that grow next to their

As people choose not to live in the woods, but rather form cities, people did not want nor had the capability to produce their own goods. Due to this, more and more people bought products from markets or from farmers.

The human brain is a feat of evolution: it has allowed humans to have complex thoughts, conscience, build tools, create fires, and much more. Humans did not acquire this simply by chance. Evolution throughout our ancestral past has shaped and moulded the human mind to its state. The earliest of ancestors, including apes, had very small brains, but as evolution progressed, so too did the human brain. The rapid progression of human intelligence has been attributed to environmental changes causing humans to change with their surroundings for survival. This lead to the expansion of specific areas of the brain, vastly differing maturation of humans compared to our

After reading this chapter, what questions were you left with? That is, did you find any of the discussion difficult or confusing?

Firstly, it is important to understand the evolution and development of human brain. An interesting idea is that our human brains are becoming smaller in size through evolution of time. It is commonly believed that more content requires bigger space. Let 's take an example. A bowl that needs to fit ten identical objects needs to be bigger to a bowl that only needs to fit five identical objects. Likewise, our human brain has continued to develop through evolution and has much more complex capabilities as well as content to carry since the birth of our species in the Stone Age. Now

Since the food was plentiful, the population expanded. Soon, advanced cities developed for large area trade. As social standing

The revolutionizing transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture was a central shift in the way homo sapiens lived that occurred twelve thousand years ago. Consequently, several factors contributed to this astonishing modification of life including increasing population size, favorable environments such as the Nile River in Egypt and the Fertile Crescent in the Mediterranean. Furthermore, the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture allowed for mass production of food in order for the sustainability of the increasing population size, but with agriculture also came specialization and the division of labor ultimately leading to moral inequality.

This book is an eye opener, making you look at things in a different way changing your views and perspective of things we thought were impossible or that they had no relationship at all. He incentives you to formulate the correct questions by questioning everything that you feel curious about. Just remember what a genius once said, "I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."- Albert Einstein. Just remember how the book says