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Lecture Topic |
Readings (Stanford, Allen, Anton)
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| 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 |
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| 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
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| Lab/Discussion Section 6 (3/6-3/7) Human Genetic Traits and Variation | ||
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Spring recess
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Spring recess
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Spring recess
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| 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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