syllabi

WEEK	DATES	LECTURE TOPIC	READ	ASSIGNMENTS
1	Jan 11, 13, 15	Introduction; Science; Misconceptions of Evolution	Text: Ch. 1; definition of terms	Homework and blog I: The Scientific Method
2	Jan 18 State holiday (no class); Jan 20, 22	Evolution; Movie: “Great Transformations”	Text: Ch. 2; If blog 2, then Coyne	Homework and blog II: Mechanisms of Evolution
3	Jan 25, 27, 29	Cells, DNA, Mendelian genetics; Friday movie:	Text: Ch.3; Overview of genetics from PBS	Homework and blog III: Genetics
4	Feb 1, 3, 5	Population genetics; Human biology and variation	Text: Ch. 4	Homework IV: Human variation (blog 4)
5	Feb 8, 10, 12	Intro to osteology (labs Monday and Wednesday); Friday: movie on race	Text: Ch. 5	Homework V: The skeleton (blog 5)
6	Feb 15 EXAM I; Feb 17, 19	Primate biology; Movie: “A winning design”	Text: Ch. 6	(blog 6) EXAM I Wednesday Sept 30 (ch 1-5; films) Study Guide
7	Feb 22, 24 , 26	behavioral ecology; Movie: “Life in the trees”	Text: Ch. 7 Fossils, geological time, taphonomy	(blog 7)
8	Mar 1, 3, 5 EXAM II Friday	Primate taxonomy; Primate evolution	Text: Ch. 8	EXAM II Friday, (ch 6-8); study guide(blog 8)
9	SPRING BREAK	Hominins: origins and evolution	Text: Ch. 9 269-281
10	Mar 15, 17, 19	Australopithecines; Movie: “Ardipithecus”	Text: Ch. 9 282-302	Homework VI: Hominin origins (blog 9)
11	Mar 22, 24, 26	Origin of the genus Homo; Homo erectus; Movie: “Walking with Cavemen”	Text: Ch. 10	Homework VII: Australopithecines (blog 10) Movie: Becoming Human Part I
12	Mar 29, 31, Apr 2	The Hobbit; Neandertals; Movie: “Becoming Human Part II”	Text: Ch. 11	Homework VIII: Homo (blog 11)
13	Apr 5 State holiday (no class), Apr 7, 9	Movie: “Becoming Human Part III”; AmHs	Text: Ch. 12	Homework IX: Pleistocene Homo (blog 12)
14	Apr 12, 14, 16	Bioarchaeology: Farming and its consequences	Review ch 9-12 for final exam	Homework X: Modern humans (blog 13)
15	FINAL EXAM Moday, April 26th from 10:00-10:50am Final review sheet; Jeopardy review game; practice test; Take a final exam online to practice

Week 1: Historical Background and Evolutionary Perspectives		Week 2: Pattern and Process in Evolution; Geological Context
Lecture Lab: Scientific Method OR Forces of Evolution	Foley Ch. 1-4	Lecture Lab: Studying the Past- taphonomy and isotopes	Foley 5-7, 9
Week 3: Humans as Apes		Week 4: Trends in Primate Evolution and Behavioral Ecology
Lecture Lab: Systematics: Morphology and Molecules	Jobling Ch 7 Foley Ch 8	Lecture Lab: Primates	Foley Ch 10-14
Week 5: The Context for Hominin Evolution		Week 6: Hominoid to Hominin
Lecture Lab: Hominin origins	Wolpoff Ch. 4, 5; Foley 16	Lecture Lab: Bipedalism	Foley Ch. 15, 17-18; Cameron Ch. 3
Week 7: The Australopithecines		Week 8: Origin of Homo
Lecture Lab: Craniofacial & Dental Adaptations & Diet	Foley Ch. 19-20 Cameron Ch. 4	Lecture Midterm Exam on Thursday	Foley Ch. 21; Falk 2005; Tocheri 2007; Culotta 2008
Week 9 is Spring Break		Week 10: Issues in the Late Pliocene
		Lecture Australopithecines, Early Homo, & LB1	Foley Ch. 22-23; Cameron Ch. 5
Week 11: Exodus		Week 12: Pleistocene Homo
Lecture Lab: Biological and Behavioral Plasticity	Foley Ch. 24-26; Cameron Ch. 6	(Gwen in Chicago) Lab: Phylogeny and Ontogeny	Foley 27; Cameron Ch 7, 8
Week 13: Origin of modern Homo		Week 14: Understanding Diversity in AmHs
(No class-- Easter Break) Lab: Out of Africa	Foley Ch. 28, 30; Jobling Ch. 8	Lecture Lab: mtDNA, Y chromo-somes, and fossils	Foley Ch. 15 Jobling Ch 9
Week 15: The Holocene and Agriculture		Week 16
Lecture Lab: Human Behavioral Ecology	Foley Ch. 19 Jobling Ch 10	Final Exam Tuesday
All assignments due in my box Monday May 3 by 5 pm

Wk	Date	Class Discussion Topic	Readings
1	1/12-14	The Indian Context: Geography, and Climatic Context	Wolpert Ch 1; Kennedy 1-10
2	1/19-21	Geology and Paleoclimate Studies	Charkrabarti 20-30; Allchin Ch 2
3	1/26-28	Miocene Hominoids: Environments, Adaptations, and Evolution	Kennedy 86-120
4	2/2-4	Paleontology, Archaeology, Colonialism	Chakrabarti 4-19; Kennedy 11-85
5	2/9-11	Paleolithic Perspectives and the Enigma of Pleistocene Hominins in India	Chakrabarti 41-90; Kennedy 121-188
6	2/16-18	Narmada Hominin	DeLumley and Sonakia 1985; Kennedy and Chiment 1991; Kennedy 1994
7	2/23-25	Early Holocene Chrono-cultural Context	Chakrabarti 91-116; Kennedy 189-200
8	3/2-4	Adaptations of Mesolithic Hunters and Foragers on the Gangetic Plains	Kennedy 200-241
9	SPRING BREAK
10	3/16-18	Sri Lanka	Deraniyagala 1991; Kennedy et al 1989
11	3/23-25	Pre-Harappan Farmers and Pastoralists of the Indus Valley (Mehrgarh)	Chakrabarti 117-150; Kennedy 242-289
12	3/30-4/1	The Harappan Civilization: Overview and Current Problems	Chakrabarti 151-204; Kennedy 290-325
13	4/6 holiday 4/8	Bioarchaeology of Harappan Civilization	Kenoyer 1998 Ch 1; Possehl 2002 Ch 14
14	4/13-15	Deccan Chalcolithic	Chakrabarti 205-261; Kennedy 308-325
15	4/20-22	Deccan Chalcolithic: current research	Lukacs 2007; Robbins
16	4/27	Megaliths and Race in Anthropology	Charkrabarti 31-40; Kennedy 326-386
16	5/3	Papers due in my box Monday, May 3, by 5 PM

Week 1: Mechanisms of evolution		Week 2: Sexual Selection and Perspectives
Mon: Introduction	Readings: Ember et al.: Evolution and Genetics Small: Female Choice	Mon: Martin Luther King Jr	Ellison: Chapter 1 Hrdy: pp. 1-26, 96-114
Wed: Evolutionary Theory		Wed: misconceptions of evolution
Fri: mechanisms of evolution		Fri: the history of theories of sexual selection
Week 3: Sex		Week 4: Evolution and Human Birth
Mon: perspectives for studying human reproduction	Readings: Miracle articles on Human sexual anatomy and physiology (provided in class) Plus: 2 handouts on anatomy and intersex conditions	Mon: Evolution of the female orgasm	Readings (handouts): Evolution of Human Birth and Bipedalism and Birth; the Obstetrical Dilemma revisited
Wed: variability in human sexes (intersex conditions)		Wed: Biocultural perspectives on birth
Fri: bio-cultural issues of sexual desire (and the feminist critiques)		Fri: Evolution of birth in hominins
Week 5: The return to the sexual cycle (Menstruation)		Week 6: Sperm, Eggs, and Gestation
Mon: Birth: 8 Women's Stories (video)	Readings: Ellison Ch. 2 and 5	Mon: Sperm Wars	Readings: Ellison Ch. 3 and Edwards (pregnancy sickness); optional: Scientific American: Evo Devo Is the New Buzzword ... and/or: a brief outline of evo-devo
Wed: Desmond Morris Video "The Biology of Love" write a critique for the midterm (turn in Week 8 Friday)		Wed: Eggs, Chimeras, and Clones (Oh My!)
Fri: evolutionary theories on menstruation		Fri: pregnancy and embryology
Week 7: Breasts and Breastfeeding		Week 8: Primate Family Planning
Mon: Breastfeeding- biology, anatomy, and physiology discussion	Readings: Ellison Ch. 3; Hrdy: pp. 121-145; Small: 177-212	Mon: Discussion of Contraception- primate style, fitness tradeoffs	Readings: Hrdy: pp. 175-204; Anderson (2006)
Wed: Breasts and Breastfeeding in evolutionary perspective		Wed: Maternal investment strategies and Sex-Ratios
Fri: biocultural perspectives on breastfeeding		Fri: Midterm
Week 9: Family Planning		Week 10: Spring Break
Mon: Video: Abortion: North and South	Readings: Ellison Ch. 6; Hrdy: pp. 351-380	Spring Break	Readings: Ellison Ch. 8; Hrdy: pp. 205-234
Wed: discussion of abortion from evolutionary and biocultural perspectives
Fri: return midterms and hand in journals
Week 11: Paternal Investment and Allomothering		Week 12: Dr. Robbins will be at AAPA Meeting Wed, Fri
Mon: allomothering	Readings: Hrdy: pp. 146-174; 318-350	Mon: discussion of cross cultural perspectives on PPD and infanticide	Readings: Hrdy: pp. 266-287; 288-317
Wed: Paternal investment and How do primate dads recognize their offspring?		Wed: Video: Girl of a Girl: Female infanticide in India VC 10269
Fri: Postpartum biology, Support, and depression		Fri: The Right to Decide: Infanticide in the US
Week 13: Infant Adaptive Strategies		Week 14: Parenting
Mon: Sleeping like a baby?	Readings: Hrdy: pp. 383-451; Small pp. 139-175	Mon: Easter Break	Readings: Small: pp. 43-69; 70-108; 213-232
Wed: Infant crying		Wed: Evolution and biodemography of childhood and adolescence
Fri: Infant faces		Fri: Gwen in Cary, NC (help)
Week 15: The Post-Reproductive Period		Week 16: Final Papers Due
The Grandmother Hypothesis	Readings: Ellison: Ch. 7; Hawkes and O'Connell (2005)

Week 1: Ethics and Representation		Week 2: Skeletal Development and Skeletal Age Estimation
Lecture	Read: Ch 1; Deloria; Klesert and Powell; Rose	Lecture	Read: Ch. 5; Scheuer and Black (2004) Ch. 2-3
Week 3: Dental Development and Dental Age Estimation		Week 4: Paleodemography
Lecture	Read: Ch. 3;Scheuer and Black (2004) Ch. 5; Scheuer (2002)	Lecture	Read: Ch. 18; Clarke and Low; Kirks; McCaa (1998)
Week 5: Race and Biological Distance		Week 6: Biocultural Stress and Health in Prehistory
Lecture	Read: Ch. 16 or 17; Lieberman; Boas	Lecture	Read: Ch. 4; Goodman and Armelagos (1989); Lewis and Roberts (1997)
Week 7: Skeletal Stress and Dietary Markers		Week 8: Dental Developmental Stress Markers
Osteobiographies	Read: Ch. 13 and 14	Osteobiographies	Read: Ch. 10; Fitzgerald et al. (2006); Goodman et al. (1980)
Week 9: (Degenerative Conditions)		Week 10: Activity Markers and Degenerative Conditions
Spring Break	Read: Ch. 12	Lecture	Read: Ch. 6; Bone Formers, ABGP Ch 11
Week 11: Congenital and Developmental Defects		Week 12: Infectious Disease (AAPA)
Student Presentations Lecture	Read: Ortner Ch. 4, 18, 19; Merbs; Masnicova	Student Presentations Lecture	Read: Ortner Ch. 10; Lambert (2006)
Week 13: Metabolic and Hematopoietic Disorders		Week 14: Traumatic Injury
Student Lecture	Read: Ortner 14, 15; Mays	Student Lecture	Read: Ch. 11; Ortner Ch. 8; Lovell
Week 15: Projects		Week 16: Turn in Portfolio of Labs, Osteobiography, Term Paper
Student Presentations	Read: Ch. 15

Megaliths and Race in Anthropology