Human Culture Exploded With The Invention Of Agriculture

Yetish et al. (2015) argued that recreating aspects of the environments observed in preindustrial societies might have beneficial effects on sleep and insomnia in industrial societies. In fact, individuals in three preindustrial societies do not sleep more than individuals in industrial societies, but their physical and physiological well-being are significantly better than the latter. Based on the examination of sleep duration, timing, and other aspects such as light exposure and seasonal change, the authors believed that preindustrial individuals adjust their sleep models based on the variations of the natural environment, can be one reason for their robust healthy status compares to individuals in industrial societies.

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,

The first example of human manipulation of changes within the biosphere is through expansion. The rapid growth of the population has led to expansion in development; the need for more space is causing strain on other living organisms such as plants and animals. Human procurement of forest, grass, and wetlands has weighed on the animal population heavily. As a result of this domination, animals have lost areas they use to thrive in, causing migration and in more serious cases extinction. Animals are a prevalent source of protein for humans, and when a species is threatened by extinction, it not only disrupts the balance of the ecosystem, but it also disrupts the food chain. The more resources that are required to sustain human life, the bigger the need to migrate to surrounding areas in a short period of time (Haines).

“ (646) In this paragraph the author engages the reader in thinking about the magnitude of environmental problems in modern day society by creating a parallelism with the Mayan and Polynesian cultures. This is one of the many examples the author uses throughout the text. In this text Diamond introduces a series of factors that have proven to gradually destroy strong kingdoms and cultures throughout history.

     Environmental conditions deteriorated as a reflection of man’s declining moral character and religious commitments. Chaos began to creep into their physical world. William Kirby (1835) wrote in one of the famous Bridgewater Treatises on natural theology that God created fleas, lice, and intestinal parasites after the fall of Adam and Eve. It was also after the fall of man that he became aware that nature as beneficial and beautiful as God had created it, also had a cruel and dangerous side. The once perfect world had no pathogenic organisms. Bacteria for example, played a purely beneficial role in the ecology of paradise. Even in the Garden of Eden, there had to be some type of garbage or refuse. Flower petals and fallen fruit would litter the ground unless some microbial force broke them down into useful organic matter. However, after man’s fall, strains of bacteria became toxic and man realized that accidentally eating toxic plants could kill him, there were disease epidemics, and major struggles to protect his food crop from disease, plant and animal pests (Wheeler, Gerald). Not long after that did the violence of man evolve and spread throughout the land.

Throughout the life cycle of the Earth our continents have been constantly changing. Causing animals and plants that may of once shared a habitat to split and evolve separately. The exploration of the new world created a bridge over the separation creating unity between continents called the Columbian exchange. Plants animals and the dreaded disease were spread and continue to wherever the European, and future explorers step and beyond. This event is the most significant ecological event to happen in the past hundreds of thousands of years. Bringing men and women across continents pioneering the unknown and taking roots into land that once was thought not to be their. From all over Africans Chinese Europeans and The Spanish settled and explored bringing with them their biology ideas and goods and bringing back the same from the native populations. Expressed in three words Alfred w. Crosby describes the entire process calling it “global biological homogeneity”.

However, human impacts on the natural environment is a complex process. Growing population and economic expansion were results of developing agriculture. Developing agriculture caused damages of natural environment and decreasing animal population. Many landscapes were developed in America since the early sixteenth century and population growth was increasing dramatically. Population growth necessitated the expansion of agriculture and the improvement of transportation.

Some of the earliest tools invented by humans include the yucca stalk and stick, stone tools, potter’s wheel, wheel, plow, and metal tools. The yucca stalk and stick were primarily found in the Neolithic Age to help start fires that humans can keep warm and cook food with. Stone tools were found in the Paleolithic Age, which helped with hunting and war. The potter’s wheel, first established in 6000 B.C.E, allowed for pottery to be made, which aided in food/water storage, and decoration. The wheel allowed for other inventions to be made, and allowed for faster travel. The plow, and other metal tools, came in towards the end of the Neolithic Age and allowed for easier farming, construction, hunting, and warfare.

Mankind had believed themselves to have escaped the horrors that preyed on them in bygone ages. Perhaps they were right. Mostly. The torch of scientific progress kindles by newton and his companions spread like wildfire over the centuries that followed, and drove the beasts that dwelt in our shadows scampering back into the darkened pits that had spawned them; turning the hunter into the hunted. Physics, the idea that our world operates through universal laws, defeated the ancient magics that had once left Kings and nobles alike shivering in the all concealing night. Darwin and his concept of evolution banished the ancient monsters with such speed and ferocity that even hercules himself would have been envious. But there are still places in our world where the light of modern day hasn’t come to contact with . i come to you not with a tale of some hidden cave in the heart of the wilderness, but that endless sprawl that surrounds all of humanity's great achievements. The last great uncharted territory. The ocean

From the smallest fly to the blue whale, from a blade of grass to a towering redwood, everything exploits the natural resources that Earth and its other inhabitants provide. In order to ensure its survival, an organism must assimilate itself into the food web or risk extinction at the hand of natural selection. Sometimes, a species is accidentally or purposefully introduced into a new area. These newcomers, commonly known as invasive species have no choice but to make themselves a part of the food web or die out. Unfortunately, that usually leads to fierce competition for resources between a local species and the invasive one, in which only the victor is allowed to survive. In a relatively short amount of time, the sudden pressure on resources can completely upset and destroy an ecosystem, taking the invasive species with it. With the invasive species destroyed, the ecosystem can slowly rebuild back to the way it was before. According to National Geographic, an invasive species is a “type of plant or animal that is not indigenous to a particular area and causes economic or environmental harm.” (National Geographic).[6] Based on that definition, humans sound suspiciously like an invasive species, except on a global scale. If humanity does not decide to become more sustainable soon, we will suffer the same fate as other invasive species: extinction. Luckily, the pressures of human exploitation of the environment for resources can be mostly eliminated through the use of

Never in the history of the human species have we been in such a rapidly changing environment. Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, we have been making social, economical, scientific, and environmental changes and advancements at an unprecedented rate. Societal advancements, while much appreciated by the average Joe, have been detrimental to our environment. Every days forests are cut, rivers polluted, and once ecologically important areas are cemented over to compensate for our rapidly growing population. As the status of our natural world becomes more critical by the year it is important that we look at the driving factors and reasons for this destruction of the natural world. While pollutants and globalization are the driving

Richard Bach once said “A tiny change today brings a dramatically tomorrow” This quote means that without the Industrial Revolution or the Agriculture Revolution, the world would completely be different. “The Industrial Revolution grew the world's population from 375 million people in 1400 to around 1 billion people in the early nineteenth century. (Strayer 828) The Agricultural Revolution grew the world’s population from 6 million people to 50 million people.”

As most know, humans have existed in a hunting-gathering system for the majority of our time on earth. During the Paleolithic, population sizes were low and settlements were sparse. At the dawn of the Neolithic, large settlements begin to appear and something strange occurred. Agricultural systems began to develop and civilization emerged as our ancestors evolved from a foraging society to an agricultural society. Following the transition from hunting and gathering, the Neolithic resulted in a dramatic change in population density and size that affected the public health drastically and one of the first epidemiological transition leading to an increase in infectious and nutritional diseases occurred.

The Industrial Revolution was an extremely efficient course of change that spread throughout Britain during the 18th century. Looking back on the Industrial Revolution you can say that it was a revolution of progress in a multitude of ways. Progress, by definition, is “forward or onward movement toward a destination”. In the sense of a revolution, the Industrial one moved toward a destination of advancement that was acted upon by the course of change within its economic, political and social boundaries that led it to progress.

One specific way that humans have begun the process of world extinction is through their incessant meddling with the environment. Not only do people destroy the environment with our wreckage and pollution, but the human race has introduced species into other ecosystems, causing massive repercussions. Referred to as invasive species, their introduction into a