A105 Fall 2004

Professor Sept

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Week	Monday	Wednesday
1	Lecture 1 pdf file Introduction to our place in nature	Lecture 2 slides pdf file Science in Cultural Context: a tale of two fossils More about Piltdown (web link)
2	Lecture 3 pdf Early Evolutionary Theory: the historic context for Charles Darwin's contribution Darwin pages: UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology for fun: more info on James Ussher! National Center for Science Education	Lecture 4 pdf file Natural Selection More on Lactose Intolerance
3	Lecture 5 Our Primate Heritage general notes on Primates for our class	Lecture 6 Growing Up Primate Learn about Capuchins
4	Lecture 7 Monkey Business Baboon Basics: an example of complex social behavior and organization in monkeys Why social strategies of males and females differ. What is sexual dimorphism and how is it related to primate social organization? What's food got to do with it? "A Baboon's Life: Violence, Aging and friendship on the savanna" R. Sapolsky 1996 Also, a FAQ page, with answers to some questions! Want to get involved? IPPL: International Primate Protection League ASP: American Society of Primatologists	Lecture 8 Planet of the Apes Gibbons, Orangutans, Gorillas Jane Goodall Institute : Some extra notes on apes
5	Lecture 9 Chimpanzees and Bonobos An advocacy letter by an IU graduate "On this day, remember Jerom" Chimpanzee Health Improvement, Maintenance and Protection Act passed December 2000 Reaction to proposed Legislation by NIH Legislation is compromise	Lecture 10 Chimpanzee Minds and Cultures
6	Exam 1 (Oct 4)	Lecture 11 The Fossil Record
7	Lecture 12 Dating the past Geological Time Machine	lecture 13 The big picture of Primate Evolution New prosimian fossils from Egypt (March 2003) Recent early primate fossils (Jan 2004)
8	lecture 14 Looking for "Missing Links" Chimp-Human genetic relationship News about Sahelanthropus Sahelanthropus debate	Lecture 15 The first bipeds Becoming Human Leakey Foundation Koobi Fora Research Project
9	lecture 16 Hominid Adaptive Radiation	lecture 17 Stones & Bones of Contention extra notes on early Homo and stone tools
10	Lecture 18 Evolution of early Homo	lecture 19 Homo erectus extra notes on Homo erectus
11	Exam 2 (Nov 8)	lecture 20 Out of Africa extra notes on archaic Homo, including neanderthals, and modern humans check out the exciting new evidence at Dmanisi ! Atapuerca site GREAT website!
12	Lecture 21 Archaic Homo & Neanderthals SUMMARY sheet: Homo timeline	lecture 22 Neandethals Extra notes on modern human origins and a "creative explosion" in the Upper Paleolithic
13	Lecture 23 Origins of Modern Humans Blombos site	Thanksgiving Break! Discussion sections do NOT meet this week.
14	Paleolithic minds & Globalization in the Stone Age lecture 24	Origins of Agriculture lecture 25
15	Lecture 26 Modern human diversity & identity in evolutionary perspective	Lecture 27 FINIS: Lessons from the past: looking into the future

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