Human Origins

Syllabus

V55.0305 Spring 2006

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Date

Lecture Topic

Readings (Stanford, Allen, Anton)
Colored links are downloadable articles

1: Wednesday, January 18 Introduction and course mechanics Stanford et al. Ch. 1
NO LABS 1/17
Primate taxonomy
2: Monday, January 23 Our Place in Nature Stanford et al. Ch. 7, pp. 164-173
3: Wednesday, January 24 Living Primates Stanford et al. Ch. 7, pp. 174-207
Lab/Discussion Section 1 (1/23-1/24) Orientation and Introduction to Skeletal Biology
skeleton; skull; anatomical definitions
 
4: Monday, January 30 Primate Social Organization Stanford et al. Ch. 8, pp. 208-220
5: Wednesday, February 1 Primate Behavior Stanford et al. Ch. 8, pp. 221-231
Lab/Discussion Section 2 (1/30-1/31) Social Organization of Living Primates
 
6: Monday, February 6 Fossils Stanford et al. Ch. 9
7: Wednesday, February 8 Primate Evolution Stanford et al. Ch. 10
Stewart and Disotell 1998
Lab/Discussion Section 3 (2/6-2/7) Primate Social Behavior
 
8: Monday, February 13 Development of Evolutionary Theory Stanford et al. Ch. 2
9: Wednesday, February 15 Genetics Stanford et al. Ch. 3
Lab/Discussion Section 4 (2/13-2/14) Comparative Anatomy  
 
10: Monday, February 20
President's Day holiday
 
11: Wednesday, February 22 Population Genetics Stanford et al. Ch. 4
No Lab/discussion sections this week (2/20-2/21) due to Monday holiday
 
12: Monday, February 27 Evolution and Disease Stanford et al. Ch. 17
13: Wednesday, March 1 The Human Genome Butler 2001; Baltimore 2001
Stoneking 2001
Lab/Discussion Section 5 (2/27-2/28) Anthropometry I: An Introduction to Statistical Methods
 
14: Monday, March 6
Review and discussion
Midterm review guide
15: Wednesday March 8
Midterm Exam
Lab/Discussion Section 6 (3/6-3/7) Human Genetic Traits and Variation
 
Midterm grades
 
 
Spring recess
Spring recess
Spring recess
 
16: Monday, March 20 Macroevolution Stanford et al. Ch. 5
17: Wednesday, March 22 Recontructing Evolution Stewart 1993
Lab/Discussion Section 7 (3/20-3/21) Anthropometry II
 
18: Monday, March 27 The earliest hominins Stanford et al. Ch. 11
review Stewart and Disotell 1998
19: Wednesday, March 29 Australopithecus and its allies Stanford et al. Ch. 12
Lab/Discussion Section 8 (3/27-3/28) Phylogenetic Methods: Inferring Evolutionary Trees
 
20: Monday, April 3 early Homo Stanford et al. Ch. 13, pp. 352-350
21: Wednesday, April 5 Homo erectus Stanford et al. Ch. 13, pp. 361-382
Lab/Discussion Section 9 (4/3-4/4) Investigating Bipedalism
 
22: Monday, April 10 "archaic" Homo Stanford et al. Ch. 14, pp. 383-395
23: Wednesday, April 12 The Neanderthals Stanford et al. Ch. 14, pp. 395-416
Krings et al 2000
Lab/Discussion Section 10 (4/10-4/11) Fossil Record for Human Evolution I: Australopithecus and Paranthropus
 
24: Monday, April 17 Anatomically modern humans Stanford et al. Ch. 15, pp. 417-435
Stringer and Andrews 1988
25: Wednesday, April 19 Genetic Evidence for Human Evolution Stanford et al. Ch. 15, pp. 436-445
Disotell 1999 "Origins of modern..."
Disotell 1999 "Sex Specific..."
Disotell 1999 "Southern Route..."
Lab/Discussion Section 11 (4/17-4/18) Fossil Record for Human Evolution II: Early members of the genus Homo 
 
26: Monday, April 24 Overview of Human Evolution Disotell 2000 "Molecular Anthropology..."
27: Wednesday, April 26 Modern Human Variation Stanford et al. Ch. 6
Disotell 2000 "Human genomic variation",
Lab/Discussion Section 12 (4/24-4/25) Fossil Record for Human Evolution III: Archaic and Homo sapiens
 
28: Monday, May 1 Review and discussion Final review guide
 
Monday, May 8
Final Exam 10:00 - 11:50
 
   
 

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