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Lecture Topic |
Readings (Stanford, Allen, Anton)
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| 1: Wednesday, September 5 | Introduction and course mechanics | Stanford et al. Ch. 1 |
| Lab 1 (9/5-9/6) Orientation and Introduction to Skeletal Biology | ||
| Primate taxonomy | ||
| 2: Monday, September 10 | Our Place in Nature | Stanford et al. Ch. 7, pp. 144-153 |
| 3: Wednesday, September 12 | Living Primates | Stanford et al. Ch. 7, pp. 153-183 |
| Lab 2 (9/12-9/13) Comparative Anatomy | ||
| skeleton; skull; anatomical definitions | ||
| 4: Monday, September 17 | Primate Social Organization | Stanford et al. Ch. 8, pp. 184-188 |
| 5: Wednesday, September 19 | Primate Behavior | Stanford et al. Ch. 8, pp. 188-203 |
| Lab 3 (9/19-9/20) Social Organization of Living Primates | ||
| 6: Monday, September 24 | Fossils | Stanford et al. Ch. 9, pp. 204-222 |
| 7: Wednesday, September 26 | Primate Evolution | Stanford et al. Ch. 9, pp. 222-241 Stewart and Disotell 1998 |
| Lab 4 (9/26-9/27) Primate Social Behavior | ||
| 8: Monday, October 1 | Development of Evolutionary Theory | Stanford et al. Ch. 2 |
| 9: Wednesday, October 3 | Genetics | Stanford et al. Ch. 3 |
| Lab 5 (10/3-10/4) Anthropometry I: Statistics and correlations | ||
| 10: Monday, October 8 | No class - Columbus Day University Holiday | |
| 11: Wednesday, October 10 | Population Genetics | Stanford et al. Ch. 4 |
| Lab 6 (10/10-10/11) Human Genetic Traits and Variation | ||
| 12: Monday, October 15 | Evolution and Disease | Stanford et al. Ch. 15 |
| 13: Wednesday, October 17 | Primate Genomes | Disotell and Tosi 2007;
Baltimore 2001 Li and Saunders 2005 |
| Lab 7 (10/17-10/18) Race | ||
| 14: Monday, October 22 |
Review and discussion
| Midterm review guide |
| 15: Wednesday October 24 | Midterm Exam
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| No Labs this week | ||
| 16: Monday, October 29 | Macroevolution | Stanford et al. Ch. 5 |
| 17: Wednesday, October 31 | Recontructing Evolution | Stewart 1993 |
| Lab 8 (10/31-11/1) Phylogenetic relationships | ||
| 18: Monday, November 5 | The earliest hominins | Stanford et al. Ch. 10, pp. 242-258 review Stewart and Disotell 1998 |
| 19: Wednesday, November 7 | Australopithecus and its allies | Stanford et al. Ch. 10, pp. 258-275 |
| Lab 9 (11/7-11/8) Fossil Record for Human Evolution I: Early hominins | ||
| 20: Monday, November 12 | early Homo | Stanford et al. Ch. 11, pp. 276-283 |
| 21: Wednesday, November 14 | Homo erectus | Stanford et al. Ch. 11, pp. 283-303 |
| Lab 10 (11/14-11/15) Investigating Bipedalism | ||
| 22: Monday, November 19 | "archaic" Homo | Stanford et al. Ch. 12, pp. 304-314 |
| 23: Wednesday, November 21 | The Neanderthals | Stanford et al. Ch. 12, pp. 314-331 Krings et al 2000 |
| No Labs this week - Thanksgiving Holiday | ||
| 24: Monday, November 26 | Anatomically modern humans | Stanford et al. Ch. 13, pp. 332-348 Stringer and Andrews 1988 |
| 25: Wednesday, November 28 | Genetic Evidence for Human Evolution | Stanford et al. Ch. 13, pp. 348-355 Disotell 1999 "Origins of modern..." Disotell 1999 "Sex Specific..." Disotell 1999 "Southern Route..." |
| Lab 11 (11/28-11/29) Fossil Record for Human Evolution II: Early Homo | ||
| 26: Monday, December 3 | Overview of Human Evolution | Disotell 2000 "Molecular Anthropology..." |
| 27: Wednesday, December 5 | Modern Human Variation | Stanford et al. Ch. 6 Disotell 2000 "Human genomic variation", |
| Lab 12 (12/5-12/6) Fossil Record for Human Evolution III: Later Homo | ||
| 28: Monday, December 10 | Discussion | |
| 29: Wednesday, December 12 | Review | Final review guide |
| Monday, December 17 |
Final Exam 10:00 - 11:50
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