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Scheduling
- Collecting resources when they are maximally productive
- Migratory, like birds
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Subsistence
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food-producing societies
- rely on cultivation of land and
production of a domestic food supply
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Foraging Societies
- rely on hunting animals and harvesting plants
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Many soceties live within a food producing state,
so they create a mixture of forage/agri based society
- sometimes they migrant work
- sometimes they sell goods
- sometimes they are racially ghetto'd
- Some modern technology is used
- Most society's still keep vestiages of foraging
- "Do we forage in the grocery store?"
- Up to 12 kya, 100% humans are hunter-gatherers
- 90% of our history as homo
sapiens is spent as hunter-gatherers
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Domestication
- an evolution process when humans modify
the genetic makeup of plants and animals
to the extent that they are unable to produce
and reproduce without humans
- a time-consuming process
- some foragers domesticate
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Interesting
- some foragers brought wild species to other places
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Domesticating Plants
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what traits are looked for?
- larger fruit
- stronger attachment
- brittle seed husks
- ripen at the same size
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Domestication puts pressure on crops to grow in size
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