6 Questions
What is the reason for Africa's late adoption of agriculture compared to other continents?
Lack of domesticable plant and animal species
Who first coined the term Anthropocene?
Paul Crutzen in 2002
What happened about 10,000 years ago that changed the competitive race among the world's humans?
The origins of agriculture
Which of the following is NOT true about the Anthropocene?
The concept of the Anthropocene does not appear regularly in scientific literature
What advantage did Africans have over humans on other continents?
Three huge head starts
Why was the idea of the Anthropocene ignored when it was first proposed in the 1870s?
The human impact on the world was not as obvious as it is now.
Study Notes
- Africa spans both north and south temperate zones with a thick tropical core.
- Africa is the place where the evolutionary lines of apes and protohumans diverged.
- Africa's human history is where Homo sapiens evolved into a behaviorally modern species.
- Africans enjoyed three huge head starts over humans on other continents.
- The rules of the competitive race among the world's humans changed radically about 10,000 years ago with the origins of agriculture.
- Domestication of wild plants and animals allowed people to settle in permanent villages, increase their populations, and to feed specialists.
- Only a tiny minority of wild plants and animals lend themselves to domestication, concentrated in about half a dozen parts of the world.
- Africa's native plant species weren't domesticated until thousands of years after Asia and Europe had agriculture.
- Africa's geography kept oil palm, yams, and other crops of equatorial Africa from spreading into southern Africa's temperate zone.
- The domesticated sheep and cattle of Fertile Crescent origins took about 5,000 years to spread from the Mediterranean down to the southern tip of Africa.
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