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Week 1
• Lecture 1: Class procedures, policies, etc. Introduction to Human Paleontology
• Lecture 2: Evolution 1; the human skeleton
• Lecture 3: Evolution 2; Osteology Quiz
Week 2
backup reading on geochronology methods
• Lecture 4: Geology and geochronology 1
•Lecture 5: Geology and geochronology 2
•Lecture 6: Discuss Term paper ideas; Paleoclimate; Movie: Evolutionary Arms Race
Week 3
1. Systematics reading 1: the uses of taxonomic names above species
2. Systematics reading 2: Ernst Mayr
3. Cladistics
4. Speciation
ICZN
Don't forget to play around with the clickable hominid evolutionary tree
• Lecture 7: Macroevolution 1: Cladistics and species concepts
• Lecture 8: Macroevolution 2: Cladistics excercise
• Term paper ideas due! In class presentation and discussion of you topics.
Week 4
1. Early Hominids--Diversity or Distortion? DOI: 10.1126/science.1078294
• Lecture 9: Fieldwork and lab work in paleoanthropology (see fossil hominid pipeline
• Lecture 10:History of paleoanthropology
• Lecture 11: History of paleoanthropology
Week 5
Middle Miocene Dispersals of Apes DOI: 10.1159/000105148
New Apes Fill the Gap; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0710109105
• Lecture 12: History of paleoanthropology
• Lecture 13: The Miocene
Term paper outline due
Midterm FRIDAY
Week 6
Middle Miocene Dispersals of Apes DOI: 10.1159/000105148
Molecular view of human origins; 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2007.00840.x
Early Hominid Dental Evolution; DOI: 10.1126/science.1092978
• Lecture 14: The Human-chimp split and Ardipithecus
• Lecture 15: Ardipithecus
• Lecture 16: Ardipithecus-early Australopithecus
Week 7
On the Status of Australopithecus afarensis DOI: 10.1126/science.207.4435.1102
The Species and Diversity of Australopiths DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-33761-4_50
• Lecture 17: Australopithecus afarensis
• Lecture 18: Southern African Australopithecus
• Lecture 19: Australopithecus africanus, A. garhi, and the Homo/ Paranthropus split
Term paper rough draft due
Week 8
Reading: Palaeoanthropology- Homing in on early Homo
Reading: The Dispersal of Homo erectus from Africa and the Emergence of More Modern Humans
New Fossils Challenge Line of Descent in Human Family Tree DOI: DOI: 10.1126/science.317.5839.733
• Lecture 20: Homo habilis, Homo erectus (ergaster) and the first diaspora
• Lecture 21: Movie: Boldest Hoax
• Lecture 22:Homo erectus 1
Week 9
Reading: Homo in the middle pleistocene: Hypodigms, variation, and species recognition
Reading: The Origin of Modern Anatomy- By Speciationor Intraspecific Evolution?
• Lecture 23:Homo erectus 2
• Lecture 24: Movie: Kenyanthropus
• Lecture 25:Homo rhodesiensis/heidelbergensis
Term paper final draft due
Week 10
Reading: The Earliest Homo Sapiens (Sapiens): Biological, Chronological and Taxonomic
• Lecture 26: Neanderthals and Circum-diaspora Homo sapiens
• Lecture 27: Homo sapiens around the world
• Lecture 28: overflow day
Final Exam
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