syllabi

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)

Required Text Books: Larsen (1997) Bioarchaeology; Scheuer and Black (2004) The Juvenile Skeleton; Ortner (2003) Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains (book is expensive so it is on reserve in library also)

Week 1:Introduction to Anthropology and Scientific Method		Week 2: Evolutionary Theory Basics
Lecture 1 Lecture 2	Read: Stanford Ch. 1	Lecture 3 Lecture 4	Read: Stanford Ch. 2
Week 3: Introduction to Genetics		Week 4: The Modern Synthesis and Human Variation
genetics lecture A genetics lecture B	Read: Stanford Ch. 3, 4	Lecture 5 Lecture 6	Read: Stanford Ch. 5, 6
Week 5: Primates as Mammals, Biodiversity		Week 6: Primate Adaptations and Lifestyles
Lecture 7 Lecture 8	Read: Stanford Ch. 7	Video: Life in the Trees; Exam I: Review Session; Exam I: Use this old exam to study.	Exam I Chapters 1-6: READ THEM AGAIN
Week 7: Primate Behavioral Ecology		Week 8: Introduction to Primate Evolution
Lecture 9 Social Climbers	Read: Stanford Ch. 8	Lecture 10 Bonobo: Missing in Action	Read: Stanford Ch. 10; Appendix B
Week 9: Paleoenvironments		Week 10: Australopithecines
Lecture 11; Lecture 11b	Read: Stanford Ch. 9	Spring Break	Exam II review: list of terms and concepts (study guides 1, 2) READ Ch 7, 8, 10 again
Week 11: The Origin of the Genus Homo		Week 12: Homo erectus, Dispersal, the Muddle in the Middle, and The Hobbit
Lecture 12 Walking with Cavemen (Wed)Exam II Friday	(list of terms and concepts, study guide 1, 2) Read: Stanford Ch. 11-12	Lecture 13 Lecture 13b	Read: Stanford Ch. 13
Week 13: Neandertals		Week 14: Modern Homo sapiens
Lecture 14 The Last Neandertal	Read: Stanford Ch. 14	The Last Neandertal Lecture 15	Read: Stanford Ch. 15
Week 15		Finals week (review sheet)Week 16: Final exam
Biocultural Approaches to Studying Modern Humans

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