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2 days ago · Although each area had its own distinct pathway to agriculture, it typically followed a standard path from resource management by hunter-gatherers, incipient cultivation (and livestock herding in some areas), domestication, to commitment to agriculture. Many theories to explain the transition to agriculture have been proposed.
1 day ago · e. On the Origin of Species (or, more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life) [3] is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin that is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. It was published on 24 November 1859. [4]
- Charles Darwin
- 1859
5 days ago · These traces indicate a movement toward incipient agriculture and (in one or two instances) animal domestication. In the case of southwestern Asia, this movement had already culminated in a level of effective village-farming communities by 7000 bce .
- The Stone Age was the prehistoric cultural stage, or level of human development, that was characterized by the creation and use of stone tools. It...
- The Stone Age is divided into three separate periods, namely the Paleolithic (Old Stone Age), Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age), and Neolithic (New Sto...
- The beginning of the Stone Age coincides with the discovery of the oldest known stone tools, which have been dated to some 3.3 million years ago.
- Humans created four types of tools during the Stone Age: pebble tools; bifacial tools, or hand-axes; flake tools; and blade tools.
3 days ago · CINWA is an online database that reunites the vernacular names of (semi-)cultivated plants in the diverse indigenous languages of western South America from published sources. The list of plants is derived with modifications from Denevan (2001) .
1 day ago · Research efforts on genomic structure and ecology of wild populations of Vitis vinifera L. offer insights on grape domestication processes and on the assortment evolution of the cultivated forms.
3 days ago · The names of animals are based in Latin and consist of two words. The first word in the name of an animal will be the genus, and the second name indicates the specific species. This method of organizing scientific names of animal species was developed by Carl Linnaeus in the 1700’s. As an example, a dolphin species name is Delphinus Delphis.
2 days ago · Peacock, any of three species of resplendent birds of the pheasant family. The group is made up of the blue, or Indian, peacock (Pavo cristatus) of India and Sri Lanka; the green, or Javanese, peacock (P. muticus) of Southeast Asia; and the Congo peacock (Afropavo congensis) of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
