Savanna Ecosystems in East Africa: implications for the origins of modern human behavior

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Biotic and abiotic factors interact to influence plant and animal community structures, which in turn, influence human subsistence, land use, mobility, population density, territorial organization and social structure. This paper evaluates the extent to which human behaviors reflect adaptations to environments over time, as well as the relationship between these adaptations and the gradual evolution of human behavior from archaic to modern.

 

This purpose of this paper is to identify the mechanisms by which organisms survive in a savanna ecology ; how biotic and abiotic factors interact to influence plant and animal community structures; to what degree such interactions influence human subsistence, land use, mobility, population density, territorial organization and social structure; and the extent to which human behaviors reflect adaptations to such environments over time. The relationship between these adaptations and the gradual evolution of human behavior from archaic to modern will be evaluated.

 

 

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MWANZIA KYULE

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Mwanzia D. Kyule
Abstract

Biotic and abiotic factors interact to influence plant and animal community structures, which in turn, influence human subsistence, land use, mobility, population density, territorial organization and social structure. This paper evaluates the extent to which human behaviors reflect adaptations to environments over time, as well as the relationship between these adaptations and the gradual evolution of human behavior from archaic to modern.

 

This purpose of this paper is to identify the mechanisms by which organisms survive in a savanna ecology ; how biotic and abiotic factors interact to influence plant and animal community structures; to what degree such interactions influence human subsistence, land use, mobility, population density, territorial organization and social structure; and the extent to which human behaviors reflect adaptations to such environments over time. The relationship between these adaptations and the gradual evolution of human behavior from archaic to modern will be evaluated.

 

 

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