Human Origins

Syllabus

V55.0305 Spring 2005

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Date

Lecture Topic

Readings (articles are from Angeloni)
Colored links are downloadable articles
1: Wednesday, January 19 Introduction and course mechanics  
NO LABS 1/18
Primate taxonomy
2: Monday, January 24 Our Place in Nature Jolly/White Ch. 4
de Waal - article 14;
Ivereigh - article 36;
Ammann - article 38
3: Wednesday, January 26 Living Primates Jolly/White Ch. 5
Smuts - article 9; Goodall - article 11;
Hrdy - article 17
Lab/Discussion Section 1 (1/24-1/25) Introduction and Primate Social Organization Lab 1
 
4: Monday, January 31 Primate Evolution Jolly/White Ch. 6. pp. 154-167
Stanford - article 12, Boesch &
Boesch-Achermann - article 13
5: Wednesday, February 2 Primate Behavior Jolly/White Ch. 6, pp. 167-178
Rosenberg & Trevathan - article 15;
Small - article 19; Smuts - article 20
Lab/Discussion Section 2 (1/31-2/1) Primate Social Behavior Lab 2  Lab 2 extra questions
 
6: Monday, February 7 Fossils Jolly/White Ch. 7
7: Wednesday, February 9 Primate Evolution Jolly/White Ch. 8
Stewart and Disotell 1998
Lab/Discussion Section 3 (2/7-2/8) The Human Skeleton
skeleton; skull; anatomical definitions
8: Monday, February 14 Development of Evolutionary Theory Jolly/White Introduction
Futuyma - article 1; Thomson - article 2;
Mayr - article 3; Rennie - article 4
Lab/Discussion Section 4 (2/14-2/15) Anthropometry I   Lab 4 extra questions
 
9: Wednesday, February 16 Genetics Jolly/White Ch. 1
Bogin - article 34
10: Monday, February 21
President's Day holiday
  
11: Wednesday, February 23 Population Genetics Jolly/White Ch. 2, pp. 50-66
Conniff - article 6
No Lab/discussion sections this week (2/21-2/22)
 
12: Monday, February 28 Evolution and Disease Huyghe - article 5; Diamond - article 7;
Diamond - article 8;
Peterson - article 37;
Armelagos - article 39;
Oliwenstein - article 40
13: Wednesday, March 2 The Human Genome Butler 2001; Baltimore 2001
Stoneking 2001
Lab/Discussion Section 5 (2/28-3/1) Comparative Anatomy
 
14: Monday, March 7
Review and discussion
 Midterm review guide
15: Wednesday March 9
Midterm Exam
Lab/Discussion Section 6 (3/7-3/8) Human Genetics and Variation
 
Midterm grades
  
 
Spring recess
Spring recess
Spring recess
 
16: Monday, March 21 Macroevolution Jolly/White Ch. 3, pp. 80-94
17: Wednesday, March 23 Recontructing Evolution Jolly/White Ch. 3, pp. 95-102
Stewart 1993
Lab/Discussion Section 7 (3/21-3/22) Anthropometry II
 
18: Monday, March 28 The earliest hominins review Jolly/White Ch. 8, pp. 220-23-
reread Stewart and Disotell 1998
19: Wednesday, March 30 Australopithecus and its allies Jolly/White Ch. 9
Lemonick & Dorfman - article 23
Lab/Discussion Section 8 (3/28-3/29) Phylogeny
 
20: Monday, April 4 early Homo Jolly/White Ch. 10, pp. 262-268
Stone - article 21; Shipman - article 24
21: Wednesday, April 6 Homo erectus Jolly/White Ch. 10, pp. 268-273
Shreeve - article 25; Boaz & Ciochon - article 26
Lab/Discussion Section 9 (4/4-4/5) Bipedalism
 
22: Monday, April 11 "archaic" Homo Jolly/White Ch. 10, pp. 274-276
Cartmill - article 29; Gibbons - article 30
23: Wednesday, April 13 The Neanderthals Jolly/White Ch. 10, pp. 276-280
Trinkaus - article 27; Krings et al 2000
Lab/Discussion Section 10 (4/11-4/12) Australopithecus and Paranthropus
 
24: Monday, April 18 Anatomically modern humans Jolly/White Ch. 10, pp. 280-285
Stringer and Andrews 1988
25: Wednesday, April 20 Genetic Evidence for Human Evolution Disotell 1999 "Origins of modern..."
Disotell 1999 "Sex Specific..."
Disotell 1999 "Southern Route..."
Lab/Discussion Section 11 (4/18-4/19) The genus Homo  Lab 11 extra questions
 
26: Monday, April 25 Overview of Human Evolution Disotell 2000 "Molecular Anthropology..."
27: Wednesday, April 27 Modern Human Variation Disotell 2000 "Human genomic variation",
Preston - article 31; Marks - article 32
Rensberger - article 33
Lab/Discussion Section 12 (4/25-4/36) Archaics and Homo sapiens
 
28: Monday, May 2 Review and discussion Final review guide
 
Monday, May 9
Final Exam 10:00 - 11:50
  
   
 

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