Understanding the Human Factor : Life and its Impact.

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Call Number: DVD 630.9 So Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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"Science & mathematics, Course no. 1557"--Disc label.
Course consists of 24 lectures in 2 parts. Each part consists of 2 videodiscs and each videodisc consists of six lectures.
Part 1. Disc 1. Lecture 1. Man the Domesticator -- 2. The Beginnings of Domestication -- 3. The Basis for Settled Communities -- 4. The Dispersal and Spread of Agriculture -- 5. Agriculture Impacts Ecology and Geology -- 6. You Are What You Eat, Raise, and Build -- Part 1. Disc 2. Lecture 7. The Domestication of Cereal Grains -- 8. The Oligarchy of the Garden Patch -- 9. The Importance of Storage Crops -- 10. Three of Man's Best Friends -- 11. The Common Barnyard Domesticates -- 12. Landraces, Breeds, and Strains.
Part 2. Disc 3. Lecture 13. The Columbian Exchange --14. Plants That Influenced Global Culture -- 15. Agriculture in the Age of Reason -- 16. Darwin, Galton, and Mendel -- 17. Some Notable Scientific Plant Breeders -- 18. Farming the Waters -- Part 2. Disc 4. Lecture 19. Domesticated Mice, Molds, and Microbes -- 20. Our Technology-Based Global Food System -- 21. Engineering Our Domesticates -- 22. Novel Delivery Systems and Spare Parts -- 23. The Age of Industrial Farming -- 24. The Path Forward.
Lecturer: Gary A. Sojka.
A journey surveying the remarkable innovations that transformed humankind into the sole agriculturists on our planet. Inasmuch as humankind has changed the species it domesticates, so have the plants and animals we cultivate and tend changed the shape of our history and lives. These interactions are the key not only to our rise but also our continued success on this planet. It's been suggested that if contributions from our domesticates suddenly stopped, civilization would almost certainly and instantly collapse.
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