Why are Forest
People Well-Adapted to Living in the Tropical Rainforest?
 Through
thousands of years of natural selection, forest people have evolved to
be smaller than people who do not live in the rainforest. They also sweat
less because the forest's high humidity means that sweat cannot evaporate,
making sweating a poor way to cool off. Forest people also drink less water
because their food contains a lot of water.
Forest people have accumulated a great wealth of knowledge
about the forest and have learned how to live in the forest without damaging
it. They know how to use thousands of edible, medicinal, and poisonous
plants and how to grow crops in the forest's poor soil. They also know
how to hunt and fish without driving the animals to extinction.
  
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