1) Other then the scientific important of studying hominids history, the most important reason why I believe we should study hominids is because it shows us that we are all the same. Discrimination, racism, and even wars are caused by people labeling themselves into different groups. All the major conflicts that you can think of are originated in the concepts of two different groups. Black vs. whites in America, Israel vs. Palestine, and pretty much all civil wars. Hopefully showing people that we are the same will reduced all major conflicts. We are basically one big family that has its ties back to Africa. Another reason why I believe it's important to study hominids is because it show us that we are no different than the animals on earth. …show more content…
As humans we tend to believe that we are greater than that of the other species on earth, however that is not the case. Hopefully shedding light on the similarities between us and our previous ancestors will stop the way we view other animals on earth. 2) The biggest thing we can learn from the Ohlone people is to start storing are food.
Our food system is completely different than that of the Ohlone people. We tend to make to make, eat, and throw our foods in a very fast pace, while the Ohlone people would store their foods for a long time. Farmers tend to make more food than the amount that would be actually bought by the consumer, store through aways tons of thousand of their on unsold foods, and as individuals we tend to not eat all the food we have. I believe, instead, of wasting our food, we should calculate the right amount that we need, and store the …show more content…
rest. The most important thing we can learn from hunter gathers is that living a simple life is just as fun as living a life with technology and material goods. While watching the bushmen people, I was really amazed at how much joy they had just by living a simple life on the wild. 3) The Maasai people are semi-nomadic people from Kenya and Tanzania. They live a very simple life, compared to that of the people that live in the big cities. Their lives revolve around the animals that they heard. They make their lives of their livestock and merchandise they sell to travelers. I feel like we should become more like the Maasai people, who live off of needs rather than want. We have become so used to what we want rather than what we need. For the Maasai, they mainly focus on their needs of food and shelter, and moving from place to place is one of the ways they accomplish that need. 4) I believe that I am in homeostasis. I try to keep a healthy lifestyle in order for my body to function properly. I don’t believe that we are keeping the plant in homeostasis. We are eating way at the plants land while at the same time polluting the air with many toxins chemicals. I see big correlations between the way in which we treat our bodies and the plant. Eating unhealthy foods is just like polluting the earth with harsh chemicals. We tend to believe that our bodies and the earth are strong machines that will never break, but that is not the cases because our body and earth will eventually break down. I feel like we know that we are damaging our bodies and the environment, but are will to fix the damage being done is not great enough to fix the problem. Companies know that dumping waste into the river is bad, but they can not stop the craving of saving money by doing so. The same goes for people, we pretty much all know junk food is bad for us, but we eat junk food. We need to have a strong will in order to improve our health and the plants health. 5) The environment nephron is working, but it is not enough to stop the damage that we are creating. The earth is really big, so of course its environmentally nephron is able to clean a lot of problems that the man is causing, but it is not able to clean all of the problems that man is causing. To fix are a current problem, I think we need to stop damaging the earth in the fashion we are current doing. If we stop doing what we are currently doing, I believe that the plant would clean itself. If left alone, creeks and river will eventually clean themselves out, forest will grow back, and the land will fertilize itself. However, if we continue to do damage to the earth at the pace we are doing so right now, the earth will eventually lose the power to clean itself out. 6) I currently have a horrible diet, but I have a somewhat good exercise habits. My goal for myself is to turn my diet around, by not eating any processed foods anymore. The majority of my meals include something that was frozen that now needs to be deep-fried, baked, or put in the microwave. My diet is so bad, that I felt the impact that it has had on my life. Due to my diet, I don’t have the energy that I used to have, plus I don’t feel as good that I used to. I feel like the biggest problem that I have with my diet is eating too many sweets. Whenever I am doing my homework, It is a must for me to have a sweet snack on the side with usually a soft drink. At first eating the sugar sweets was something that I didn’t need but want, but as of right now I really on sweets to give me energy rather exercise. The first step to fixing my diet is to cut away as many sweets as possible 7) The main idea that I took from the Gazos creek field trip is that whenever we have to create any structure in the wild, we should figure out all the consequences that it will have on the local habit.
For example, if the state of California wants to build a new high school near the beach, there must be intensive among of research done to figure out all possible effects that it would have on the local environment. Building a new building in an environment inhabited by animals, is like aliens building a home in our backyards. So whenever we have to build any kind of structure or building, we should know exactly how it would affect the local wildlife that lives
there. Population and climate change are tied together, but we can change that. Currently, there are many problems with the large populations of humans on the earth. The main problems include land uses, food, and transportation. Even though humans big populations is causing problems for the earth, we can change that way we are doing things to change that. 8) One of the best solutions to our current global warming problems is fixing the way are current food and agriculture is set up. We are current using way to much energy and pushing out too much pollution on the productions of meats. We need to stop emphasizing on meat production and focus more on the products of food that comes from the ground. My second solution to our current global warming problem is eating and shopping for foods locally. The current way in which we buy and sell food is horrible for the environment and us. The shipment of foods across thousands of miles causes a lot of pollution. Plus, in order for food that was created in Florida to be eaten in California, farm have to add chemicals to preserve the foods. 9) Environmental wisdom. I would say that as a whole we have a great amount of environmental wisdom due to advancement in science, but that knowledge is only held by the few who actually study about our environment. The reason why that knowledge is not spread even among the whole population just like our ancestors, is because being environmental conscious is not profitable. So the government and companies do whatever they can to stop the spread of knowledge to the people. Our ancestor had great earth wisdom because they learn it from the way they lived, we are not able to develop environmental wisdom through the same means as our anciestor, but that should not stop the knowledge of the earth to be spread to each of us. 10) One of the book presentation that I like the most was prevented and reverse heart disease. The book should be that surgery was not the only way to fix heart problems that many Americans have. The book focuses on preventing heart disease, by the means of a healthy diet. Heart disease is caused by a poor diet, so it only makes sense to focus on improving our diets to prevent heart disease. I was surprised to learn that through a good diet, you're not only able to prevent heart disease but also reverse it. The second book report that I really like was The engine 2 diet. The thing that I like most about the book is the simple four-week plan. The first week you cut out dairy and processed foods, the second you cut out meats, the third you cut out added oils, and final the third week you added more fruits and vegetables. I look forward to starting the engine 2 diet.
The book The No-Nonsense Guide to World Food, by Wayne Roberts introduces us to the concept of “food system”, which has been neglected by many people in today’s fast-changing and fast-developing global food scene. Roberts points out that rather than food system, more people tend to recognize food as a problem or an opportunity. And he believes that instead of considering food as a “problem”, we should think first and foremost about food as an “opportunity”.
...nerations” if things go unregulated. Fortunately science provides policy makers with the information needed to make informed regulations to benefit the future. It seems that environmentalism is becoming the stewardship of the Earth.
Ever since the Pleistocene era, human societies have expanded rapidly, developing innovative ways to defend their territories and migrate across the land. Consisting of an aggregate of humans living together, these societies became more powerful as time progressed by consuming more meat (megafauna). Supporting this development, the more mammals that humans would eat, the more protein their bodies would absorb. When humans consume high amounts of protein, they develop stronger muscles, which leads to the stimulation of brain activity. By way of further explanation, amino acids from the proteins are used to make the neurotransmitters that allow your brain cells to network and communicate. Amino acids that come from the protein you eat are the building blocks of your brain’s network. They can excite or calm your brain as well as nourish your brain throughout its lifetime. Also, they allow the body's own proteins to be used to support life, particularly those found in muscle. This led humans to develop intelligence and create a wide variety of tools. These tools are what the early hominids used to develop their culture into that of hunter-gatherer-fishers, making humans a more dominant mammal within that ecosystem.
Our earliest ancestors are primates. They are our closest relatives which is why we can see our behavior’s and practices in them. If we observe them we can get a better understanding of them and us, human beings. But unfortunately we all don’t get the chance to see a Primate right in our backdoor. So the best thing I could do for my observation was to visit them at the zoo.
...higher and more complicated degree. More research done about non human primates can help us understand more our social, ecological, and cultural roots.
Much of the food is thrown into landfills, where it rots, which has very negative effects on the environment. According to John Oliver, the food left to rot in the landfills releases methane, an extremely powerful greenhouse gas (Oliver, 2015). Methane is a greenhouse gas, meaning it destroys the ozone layer and contributes to the warming of the earth. By refraining from throwing out so much food, or at least redirecting it to people who need it, food waste would be reduced, and so would its harm on the environment. Not only does the rotting food release greenhouse gases, the resources wasted to deal with the unwanted food are huge. According to Kevin Hall, Juen Guo, Michael Dore, and Carson Chow, “Food waste contributes to excess consumption of freshwater and fossil fuels which, along with methane and CO2 emissions from decomposing food, impacts global climate change” (Hall, Guo, Dore, & Chow, 2009, p. 1). America is essentially using resources like water and fossil fuels, that we could be directing towards a better cause, to dispose of perfectly good food that will then release harmful gases of methane and carbon dioxide. Food waste matters because it is a complete waste of valuable resources and food that is needed by many, while also contributing to the growing problem of climate
I am an art history major so I decided to ask my fellow art historians to answer some of the questions I had for them about primate conservation. This is the questions I asked: What is your definition of a primate? Do you think it is important to conserve primates? Do you consider humans primates? If so why should we care about “conserving” humans and not non-human primates? Finally, do you know the effect of palm oil production in countries like Indonesia?
This does not only apply to food, it also applies to merchandise such as cars, houses, clothes, and other material items. Many people do not need those ten sports cars in the garage of their mansion. Furthermore, “The poll found that 63% of respondents are concerned about the amount of food wasted in the United States… the respondents were shown facts about the environmental, economic and social impacts of food waste, 60% said the impacts were more than they expected. Knowing the facts, a full 73% said we should all try to make it a high priority to limit food waste,” (Leibrock). Ultimately, many people realize how much products are being wasted, and their impact on the world. Also, a large percentage of people believe something should be done to prevent how much resources are
In order for us to maintain our lives, we need to consume food to supply nutrient-needs for our bodies. As the global population increased, the demand for food also increased. Increased population led to mass production of foods. However, even with this mass production, in under-developed countries, people are still undernourished. On other hand, in developed and developing countries, people are overfed and suffering from obesity. In addition, the current methods of industrial farming destroy the environment. These problems raised a question to our global food system. Will it be able to sustain our increasing global population and the earth? With this question in my mind, I decided to investigate the sustainability of our current global food system.
...veryday foods require a lot of energy and release a lot of greenhouse gases to produce. This is the reason we should stop wasting the foods, consume less meat, and eat more locally grown food.
The struggle for enough food has gone on for centuries. Back in primitive days, the first task human beings undertook was the search for food. Primitive people were collectors, they would find what they could to eat and hope that it would be enough. When this failed to meet the population's needs, humans became hunters and trapped their food. Finally, some years later, humans began to farm the land. Because of the growing demand for food, those who could produce the most crops were considered the most powerful.
As everyone knows, the history of human evolution originated from more than five million years ago (Pickrell, 2006). Human is the most intellective living being on the Earth, even in the developed universe. With the development of human being, the beginning of human started to be discovered. This essay will focus on the evolution history of human being. It will explain three most significant time slices of human evolution.
When you look at different aspects of your life, you can see anthropology coming into play. At times, it may be easy to see how anthropology is affecting your life. At other times however, it can be quite difficult to see. Anthropology allows us to not only to be able to understand the present, but also it helps us to understand the past. There are many different subcategories of anthropology that can be helpful. Every part of anthropology, from forensic anthropology to archaeology, helps us to better understand one another.
we must be able to find out information by conducting research. Research is the most important component to provide us with facts and answers. Our research is distinguished into two parts, primary research and secondary research. The primary research consist of a survey we conducted by asking people to fill up an online questionnaire to gain information about how people would normally react to this problem of stray animals. The other research method is the secondary research, this consist of going through the internet for information on the related topic, and ...
Who are we? How old is the human species? Where did we come from? What do we believe and why? Is our own culture the epitome of civilization? What is reality? How have we arrived at a position where destroying the earth doesn't bother us very much? These, and many, many more are the questions that drive anthropologists to study human beings and our interactions. In fact, the presence of a driving question is the seed that creates anthropologists, as we will soon see.