人类进化导论

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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

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Adam Van Arsdale

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