AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -All people living today belong to the species Homo sapiens. We evolved only relatively recently but with complex culture and technology have been able to spread throughout the world and occupy a range of different environments.

Detailed explanation-2: -Humans can move on their own and are placed in the animal kingdom. Further, humans belong to the animal phylum known as chordates because we have a backbone. The human animal has hair and milk glands, so we are placed in the class of mammals. Within the mammal class, humans are placed in the primate order.

Detailed explanation-3: -We don’t see ourselves as separate, rather as another species in a larger ecosystem of the natural world. Nature isn’t an “other” rather it is part of us and we are part of nature. This shifts our relationship to nature. We understand that nature and people are part of one system.

Detailed explanation-4: -Humans are part of the environment, they live in it, from it and with it. All these interactions shape our natural world. This is especially true in the Mediterranean, where human activities have shaped local landscapes for thousands of years, creating characteristic ecological heterogeneity and biodiversity patterns.