Meat from the wild: extractive uses of wildlife and alternatives for sustainability

摘要: Hunting and gathering remained the main mode of subsistence humanity for hundreds thousands years, beginning some 1.8 million years ago, until Neolithic Revolution (some 10,000 ago), when agriculture gradually spread through human societies (Marlowe 2005). Hunter-gatherer obtained their food directly from “natural” ecosystems, by hunting wild animals collecting plants (Richerson et al. 1996). Early agrarian started planting desired crops on suitable lands, competing with wildlife space resources. As evolved, techniques harvesting became technologically more advanced efficient Innovations thus allowed population to grow colonize nearly every terrestrial ecosystem type Earth.