Introduction to Biological Anthropology

One Semester High School Elective

Primary Text: Introduction to Physical Anthropology, 11th Ed by Jurmain, Kilgore, Trevathan, & Ciochon
Introduction to Biological Anthropology (lectre series) by The Teaching Company
Virtual Laboratories for Physical Anthropology, Version 4.5 by John Kappelman

Secondary Materials: BecomingHuman.org

Inherit the Wind (curricular tie-in to American History class)

Week
1 What is Anthropology? Wikipedia
Courses offered in an Anthropology department
Another Anthropology Department
Begin Reading "Inherit the Wind"
Lec 1 - What is Biological Anthropology
Ch 1 - Introduction to Physical Anthropology (through page 15)
Textbook website: self-quiz chapter 1 MC/Short Answer/Long Answer
text pp 16-17 "Evaluation in Science: Lessons in Critical Thinking"

2 Lec 2 - How Evolution Works

Ch 2 - The Development of Evolutionary Theory
Wired: Biologists Take Evolution Beyond Darwin — Way Beyond
Wired: Complexity Theory in Icky Action: Meet the Slime Mold
Textbook website: self-quiz chapter 2 MC/Short Answer/Long Answer

3 Lec 3 - The Debate Over Evolution

Ch 3 - The Biological Basis of Life (to page 61)
text pp 62-63 "Stem Cell Research: Promise and Controversy"
Lab 1 - Introduction to the Primates
Textbook website: self-quiz chapter 3 MC/Short Answer/Long Answer
Finish reading "Inherit the Wind"

4 Lec 4 - Matter Arising - New Species

Ch 4 - Heredity and Evolution
BecomingHuman | Chromosome Connection Activity
Wired: 12 Elegant Examples of Evolution
Textbook website: self-quiz chapter 4 MC/Short Answer/Long Answer
Begin Reading "The Bone Dectectives"

5 Ch 5 - Macroevolution: Processes of Vertebrate and Mammalian Evolution (to p 117)

Lab 2 - Genetics and Evolution of the Human Populations
text pp 118-119 " Just When We Thought Things Couldn't Get Any Worse: Bushmeat and Ebola"
University of California Museum of Paleontology: phylogeny
Textbook website: self-quiz chapter 5 MC/Short Answer/Long Answer

6 Ch 6 - Survey of the Living Primates

Lec 5 - Prosimians, Monkeys, & Apes
Lab 3 - Primate Functional Morphology
African Primates at Home
Textbook website: self-quiz chapter 6 MC/Short Answer/Long Answer

7 Ch 7 - Primate Behavior
Lec 6 - Monkey and Ape Social Behavior
Lec 7 - The Mind of the Great Ape
Lab 4 - Primates in Motion
Textbook website: self-quiz chapter 7 MC/Short Answer/Long Answer

8 Ch 8 - Primate Models for Human Behavioral Evolution

Lec 8 - Models for Human Ancestors
Lab 5 - Primate Diets and Feeding Behaviors
Wired: Human Laughter Echoes Chimp Chuckles
Textbook website: self-quiz chapter 7 MC/Short Answer/Long Answer

9 Ch 9 - Overview of the Fossil Primates

Lec 9 - Introducing the Hominids
Lec 10 - Lucy & Company

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eLucy.org
Lab 6 - Primate Behavior: The Ethogram
Textbook website: self-quiz chapter 9 MC/Short Answer/Long Answer

10 Ch 10 - Paleoanthropology: Reconstructing Early Hominid Behavior and Ecology

Lec 11 - Stones & Bones
eSkeletons.org
Lab 7 - Primate Evolution
Textbook website: self-quiz chapter 10 MC/Short Answer/Long Answer

11 Ch 11 - Hominid Origins in Africa

Lec 12 - Out of Africa
Lec 13 - Who Were the Neaderthals
Lab 8 - The Australopithecines
Textbook website: self-quiz chapter 11 MC/Short Answer/Long Answer

12 Ch 12 - The Earliest Dispersal of the Genus Homo: Homo Erectus and Contemporaries
Lec 14 - Did Hunting Make us Human?
Lec 15 - The Prehistory of Gender
Lab 9 - The Evolution of Bipedalism
Textbook website: self-quiz chapter 12 MC/Short Answer/Long Answer

13 Ch 13 - Premodern Humans
Lec 16 - Modern Human Anatomy & Behavior
Lec 17 - On the Origins of Homo Sapiens
Lab 10 - Fossil Hominids of Genus Homo
Textbook website: self-quiz chapter 13 MC/Short Answer/Long Answer

14 Ch 14 - The Origin and Dispersal of Modern Humans

Lec 18 - Language
Lec 19 - Do Human Races Exist?
Lab 11 - The Archeeological Record
Textbook website: self-quiz chapter 14 MC/Short Answer/Long Answer

15 Ch 15 - Modern Human Biology: Patterns of Variation

Lec 20 - Modern Human Variation
Lab 12 - The Origin and Evolution of Modern Humans
Review
Textbook website: self-quiz chapter 15 MC/Short Answer/Long Answer

16 Ch 16 - Modern Human Biology: Patterns of Adaptation

Lec 21 - Body Fat, Diet & Obesity
Lec 22 - The Body and Mind Evolving
Review
Textbook website: self-quiz chapter 16 MC/Short Answer/Long Answer

17 Ch 17 - Legacies of Human Evolutionary History

Lec 23 - Tyranny of the Gene
Wired: Researchers Synthesize Evolution of Language
Review
Textbook website: self-quiz chapter 16 MC/Short Answer/Long Answer

18 Lec 24 - Evolution & the Future

BecomingHuman | Building Bodies Activity
Wired: Evolution of Fairness Driven by Culture, Not Genes
Review
Final Exam

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