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Chapter 14 Lessons From the Past, Lessons For the Future Chapter Outline How Successful Are We? Humans and the Impact of Culture The Loss of Biodiversity The Present Crisis: Our Cultural Heritage? Neolithic The period during which humans began to domesticate plants and animals. The Neolithic is also associated with increased sedentism. Dates for the Neolithic vary from region to region, depending on when domestication occurred. Mesolithic The period preceding the Neolithic, during which humans increasingly exploited smaller animals (including fish), increased the variety of tools they used, a