The Aleuts lived in a marginal area of the Earth that had scarce supplies of vegetation for the islanders to gather due to the unstable environment. Hunting se

According to William S. Laughlin, the physical demands of hunting at sea led the Aleuts "to shuffle a whole lot faster through the evolutionary deck." This means that the Aleuts adaptation to their environment was a necessity. Natural selection results in more favorable genes to become more frequent in a population over time. Maybe the Aleuts remarkable upper-body strength was due to the adaptation of the essential task of hunting at sea to provide sustenance.

Upon arrival, the Russian traders realized the Aleuts' technology was superior to their own. The Russians also "modified" the baidarka, established a near-monopoly on hunting and finally killing entire populations of sea otters leading to the sea mammals near extinction, and the American government prohibiting the hunt led to the end of the Aleut's best-known occupation. With the end of the hunting of sea otters, the Aleut's had no reason to continue the building of the baid

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