Tentative Lecture Schedule

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1/15 - 1/17 (TuTh) / 1/18 (F)

What is biological anthropology? (Chap. 1, 2)
Science and the scientific method
History of biological anthropology
Example of Biological Anthropology: Bioarchaeology of Peru

1/22-1/24 (TuTh) / 1/25 (F)

The Foundations of Biological Variation. [Chaps. 3, 4 (65-74)]
Mendelian Genetics, Cell Theory
Mendelian Traits and methods of analysis (Punnett square)

1/29-1/31 (TuTh) / 2/1 (F)

Principles of Microevolution [Chap. 4 (75-80)]
Polygenic Traits, Environment, Pleiotropy

2/5-2/7 (TuTh) / 2/8 (F)

Forces of Microevolution
Neo-Darwinism, sociobiology, and evolutionary ecology
Macroevolution/Speciation Events

2/12-2/14 (TuTh) / 2/15 (F)

Population Genetics & Human Variation [Chap 15, pp. 389-394]
Hardy-Weinberg

[End of Exam I Material]

2/19 (TuTh) / 2/22 (F) -EXAM I - (Chapters 1-5 & 15, Weeks 1-5)

2/21 (TuTh) / 2/22 (F)

Human Polymorphisms, Human Variation & Adaptation, Concepts of Race, Ethnicity, and Cline
Intelligence, Disease, (Chap. 15)

2/26-2/28 (TuTh) / 2/29 (F)

Human Polymorphisms, Human Variation & Adaptation, Concepts of Race, Ethnicity, and Cline
Intelligence, Disease, (Chap. 15)

3/4-3/6 (TuTh) / 3/7 (F)

Human Variation & Adaptation, Growth & Development (Chap. 16)

 

3/11-3/13 (TuTh) / 3/14 (F)

 

No Class - Spring Break

3/18-3/20 (TuTh)

Primates & Primate Behavior (Chap. 6, 7)

3/21 (F) - NO CLASS - GOOD FRIDAY

3/25-3/27 (TuTh) / 3/28 (F)

Film: The Dark Side of Chimpanzees

4/1-4/3 (TuTh) / 4/4 (F)

Primates & Primate Behavior (Chaps 6 & 7)

[End of Exam II Material]

4/8 (Tu) / 4/11 (F) - EXAM II: (Covers Chapters 6-12; 16-17, Weeks 6 - 11)

 

4/10 (Th) / 4/11 (F)

 

Analogues and the Fossil Record, Fossil Primates (Chap. 8)
Biological classification and the species concept
Paleocene, Eocene, and Oligocene Primates
Origin of New World Monkeys, Miocene Apes

Fossil Primates (Chap. 8)

4/15-4/17 (TuTh) / 4/18 (F)

Hominid Origins and Origins of Bipedality (Chap. 10-11)
Anatomical correlates with bipedality

Australopithecines (Chapter 11)

4/22-4/24 (TuTh) / 4/25 (F)

The Emergence of Homo

Homo erectus

Homo habilis (Chapter 12)

4/29-5/1 (TuTh) / 5/2 (F)

Archaic Homo sapiens and Neanderthals (Chap. 12)

Anatomically Modern Humans (Chap. 13)

FINALS WEEK

CUMULATIVE Final Exam

 

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