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| Human interference with the reporduction of another species, with the result that specific plants and animals become more useful to people and dependant on them |
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| Any species way of life: what it eats and how it finds mates, raises its young, relates to companions, and protects itself from predators |
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| Sum of all of the natural selection pressures to which a population is exposed |
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| When an organism actively perturbs the envornment or when it actively moves into a different enviornment |
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| the systematic modefication of the envornments of plants and animals to increase their productivity and usefulness |
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| the systematically modified enviornment (or constructed niche) whicch becomes the only enviornment within which domesticated plants can flourish |
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| The process of increasingly permanent human habitation in one place |
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| a subsistence strategy based on collecting a wide range of plants and animals by hunting, fishing, and gathering |
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| A form of social orginization in which people have unequal access to wealth, power, and prestige |
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| The "New Stone Age," which began with the domestication of plants 10,300 years ago |
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| egalitarian social relations |
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| Social relations in which no great differences in wealth, power, or prestige divide members from one another |
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| the production of amounts of food that exceed the basic subsistence needs of the population |
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| occupational specalization |
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| Specilization in various occupations or in new social roles that is found in socially complex societies |
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| A ranked group within a hierarchically stratified society whose membership is defined primarily in terms of wealth, occupation, or other economic criteria |
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| Societies with large populations, an extensive division of labor, and occupational specilization |
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| Architectural construction of a greater than human scale, such as pyramids, temples, and tombs |
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| objects buried with a corpse |
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| concentrations of particular artifacts |
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| Sets of artifacts indicating that particular social activities took place as a particular area in an archaeological site when that site was inhabited in the past |
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| Material goods paid by perpetrators to compensate their victims for their loss |
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