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人类进化导论
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Syllabus
- 什么是人类学?什么是进化?Week 1: What is anthropology? What is evolution?
- Anth207.00团队介绍 An Introduction to Anth 207.00
- 人类学与相关问题 Anthropology and the questions we ask
- 什么是进化? What is evolution?
- 进化演变的基本动力 The basic forces of evolutionary change
- 发生着的进化 Evolution in action
- 本周思考题 Thought question for the weekend
- 现存猿类与人类的生物多样性 Week 2: Biological variation in the living apes and humans
- 人类在灵长类世界中的地位 The place of humans in the primate world
- 猿类与人类的解剖 Ape and Human Anatomy
- 猿类与人类的骨骼解剖 Ape and Human Skeletal Anatomy
- 猿类与人类的生命史 Ape and Human Life History
- 猿类与人类的行为特征 Ape and Human Behavior
- 猿类与人类:练习题 Apes and Humans: Review exercises
- 本周思考题 Thought question for the weekend
- 化石记录研究 Week 3: Studying the fossil record
- 什么是化石? What is a fossil?
- 确定化石记录的年代 Dating the fossil record
- 模拟挖掘:“再挖深一些” Virtual Excavation: "Gone digging"
- 这是什么?从化石中识别功能 What is it? Identifying function from fossils
- 这是什么?生物变异化石分类 What is it? Categorizing biological variation in fossils
- 建立正常变异 Establishing normality
- 本周思考题 Thought question for the weekend
- Week 4: The origin of hominins
- The Miocene soup: The age of apes
- What makes a hominin a hominin?
- Primate dentition
- The earliest possible hominins
- Early hominins: review
- Week 5: The early Australopithecines
- Obligate bipedality and the earliest Australopithecines
- All about "Lucy"
- Australopithecus afarensis
- Locomotor anatomy
- Australopithecine biology
- Early Australopithecine: Review
- Week 6: The later Australopithecines
- The original Australopithecine - Australopithecus africanus
- Australopithecine behavior
- Lab: Sexual dimorphism in the Australopithecines
- The newest Australopithecine - Australopithecus sediba
- Review: Australopithecines as the missing link
- MIDTERM (Weeks 1-6)
- Evolutionary theory, early hominins, and the Australopithecines
- Week 7: The rise and fall of the "robust" Australopithecines
- The beginning of a new lineage? - The Robust Australopithecines
- Prioritizing mastication - A. robust and A. boisei
- East vs. South, Species vs. Genera
- Lab - Masticatory divergence
- Specialization and the end of a lineage
- Week 8: The beginnings of humanity - the origin of Homo
- The beginning of our lineage
- A new adaptive plan: early Homo ecology
- The chicken and the egg: Brain, tools, and diet
- The fossil evidence for early Homo
- Multiple or single lineages?
- Fossil review
- Thought question for the weekend
- Week 9: Lower and Middle Pleistocene human evolution
- Homo erectus
- Life in the Pleistocene
- Lab: Archaeology and behavior
- Regional variation
- Culture, cognition, and human evolution
- Fossil Review: Homo erectus
- Week 10: The Late Pleistocene and the horizon of modernity
- Defining modernity
- Pre-modern humans in a changing world
- Evolution and culture
- The Neandertals
- Lab: geometric morphometrics
- Pre-modern review
- Week 11: "Modern" human origins
- Genetics and human origins
- Replacement or admixture?
- Behavioral "revolutions"
- What is the human species?
- Modern human fossil review
- Week 12: Human evolution - past, present, and future
- Evolution did not stop: The strange case of H. florisiensis
- Evolution did not stop: Population expansion and evolutionary acceleration
- Lab: Genetics of modern human origins
- Evolution did not stop: Intensification and domestication
- Evolutionary perspectives on the present
- Post-Pleistocene review
- Final Exam
- Final Exam: The end of the Australopiths and the evolution of Homo
Prerequisite
None.
Instructors
- Adam Van Arsdale
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