THE DOMESTICATION OF ANIMALS Thedomesticationof wildspeciesled directly to denser human populations by yielding more food than the hunter-gatherer lifestyle could provide. In societies that possesseddomesticanimals,livestockhelped to feed more people by providing meat, milk, andfertilizer, and by pulling...
DomesticationGeneticsOver the past 11,000 years humans have brought a wide variety of animals under domestication. Domestic animals belong to all Linnaean animal classes- mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fi sh, insects, and even, arguably, bacteria. Raised for food, secondary products, labor,...
THE DOMESTICATION OF ANIMALS The domestication of wild species led directly to denser human populations by yielding more food than the hunter-gatherer lifestyle could provide. In societies that possessed domestic animals, livestock helped to feed more people by providing meat, milk, and fertilizer, ...
THE DOMESTICATION OF ANIMALS Thedomesticationof wildspeciesled directly to denser human populations by yielding more food than the hunter-gatherer lifestyle could provide. In societies that possesseddomesticanimals,livestockhelped to feed more people by providing meat, milk, andfertilizer, and by...
在拥有家畜的社会中,牲畜通过提供肉类、牛奶和肥料以及拉犁来帮助养活更多的人。大型家畜取代野生动物,成为社会动物蛋白质的主要来源,它们还提供羊毛、皮革和陆路运输。人类只驯养了少数几种大型动物,“大型”是指体重超过100磅(45公斤)的动物。在20世纪之前,有14种这样的物种被驯化,它们都是陆生哺乳动物和食草动物...
Domestication involves transforming wild animals into something more useful to humans.Truly domesticated animals differ in many ways from their wild ancestors.These differences result from two processes: human selection of individual animals that are more useful to humans than other individuals of the sam...
Over the past 11,000 years humans have brought a wide variety of animals under domestication. Domestic animals belong to all Linnaean animal classes- mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fi sh, insects, and even, arguably, bacteria. Raised for food, secondary products, labor, and companionship...
This development led to farming and the domestication of animals. Fire provided the means for cooking plants which had previously been inedible. Only when the process of meeting the basic need for food reached a certain level was it possible for humans to follow other pursuits such as setting...
根据第二段but specialists in animal behavior now think that domestication was not simply something people did to animals—the animals played an active part in the process.得知,专家发现在驯化动物过程中,动物也扮演积极的角色。故选B。 9. 词义猜测题。根据The process was more like a dance with ...
It was a close-knit community of rectangular, one-story mud brick houses重点单词:switch v. 改变herd n. 兽群;v.放牧 (CET4)abruptly adv. 突然地 (CET6)domesticate v. (domestication n.)驯养;教化 (托福)rectangular n. 矩形的 (CET6)A选项:the domestication of animalsC选项:the size of the ...