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Syllabus
Sonoma State University
Anthropology 201
Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Section 2, Fall 2011
Instructor:
Bruce Owen
Office Location:
Stevenson 2054H
Telephone:
(707) 664-2181 (I do not check messages.)
Email:
[email protected] (This
Introduction to Biological Anthropology: Notes 26
Modern Homo sapiens
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This semester I have not discussed the interesting side branch of the Neanderthals in Europe
please review the reading on this
from 300,000 to 127,000 ya i
Introduction to Biological Anthropology: Notes 25
Homo but not quite us
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As we saw last time, the first species of the genus Homo appeared about 1.8 mya
different from the other, earlier hominins in that it had
slow, long, lar
Introduction to Biological Anthropology: Notes 24
Lifestyles of the toolmaking Oldowan hominins
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The earliest known stone tools appeared in East Africa around 3.4 mya
evidence: the cutmarked bone from Dikka
the earliest tools
Introduction to Biological Anthropology: Notes 23
A world full of Plio-pleistocene hominins
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Lets look at the next chunk of time: 3.0 1.0 mya
often called the Plio-pleistocene (end of the Pliocene, beginning of the Pleistocene)
Introduction to Biological Anthropology: Notes 22
Early Australopithecines
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A bit after 5 mya, one genus of hominins appeared and diversified into many species: the
genus Australopithecus = southern ape
australopithecine refers
Introduction to Biological Anthropology: Notes 21
Apes and early hominins
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the first known hominoids (apes) appeared in the late Oligocene, 27 mya
example Oligocene ape: genus Proconsul (probably various species)
lived in trop
Introduction to Biological Anthropology: Notes 20
Paleontology and the first primates
Copyright Bruce Owen 2010
So far, we have seen how evolution works in general, and how it has shaped our closest
relatives, the non-human primates
Now we will shift g
Introduction to Biological Anthropology: Notes 19
Evolution of primate intelligence
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Primates are relatively intelligent compared to other animals
As we saw earlier, primates tend to have large brains relative to their body siz
Introduction to Biological Anthropology: Notes 18
The evolution of cooperation: Altruism and kin selection
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It was not difficult to understand how selection can affect mating and parenting behavior, and
behaviors directly relate
Introduction to Biological Anthropology: Notes 17
Mating: Sexual selection
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Sexual selection: selection that favors traits that increase male success in mating
Sexual selection is just a kind of natural selection
but it is unu
Introduction to Biological Anthropology: Notes 16
Primate sociality: Predators and living in groups
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Most haplorrine, and many strepsirrhine, primates are social: they live in groups
Why?
many, maybe most, mammals do not live
Introduction to Biological Anthropology: Notes 15
Primate ecology: Food and range
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In order to understand primates physical and behavioral traits, and to realistically assess how
the traits affect their reproductive success, we
Introduction to Biological Anthropology: Notes 14
Mating: Primate females and males
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We want to understand the reasons behind
the lifestyles of our non-human primate relatives
their physical traits, both the ways they are simi
Introduction to Biological Anthropology: Notes 13
An introduction to our relatives: Catarrhines
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Continuing our survey of the Order primates
Suborder: haplorrhini
Infraorder: simiformes
Two parvorders: platyrrhini (platyrrhin
Introduction to Biological Anthropology: Notes 12
An introduction to our relatives Strepsirrhines, tarsiers, and platyrrhines
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Order: Primates
We looked at the characteristics of primates last time
Mammals descended from earli
Introduction to Biological Anthropology: Notes 11
What is a primate, and why do we study them?
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Why study non-human primates?
They give us clues about human nature and the nature of the species that led to humans
For two kinds
Introduction to Biological Anthropology: Notes 10
Classification and Phylogeny: Evolutionary family trees
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Species of living things have an odd property:
species can be lumped by similarity into groups
those groups can be lump
Introduction to Biological Anthropology: Notes 9
Population genetics and the modern synthesis of evolutionary theory
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Recall from an earlier lecture that variation can come in two forms:
discontinuous variation refers to traits
Introduction to Biological Anthropology: Notes 8
Beyond Mendel: Molecular genetics, cell division, and sex
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Mendels model was completely abstract.
In his day, no one had ever seen a particle of inheritance
nor anything that re
Introduction to Biological Anthropology: Notes 7
Darwins big problem and Mendelian genetics
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Darwins big problem
We have seen that natural selection works by favoring the most successful variants among
the individuals in a popu
Introduction to Biological Anthropology: Notes 6
What are species and how do they arise?
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Two ways to look at evolution
We can look at it up close
What we see in the close-up, short-term, detailed view is called microevolution
Introduction to Biological Anthropology: Notes 5
Elephants and epistemology
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Organisms with short generations tend to evolve faster than those with long generations
Because evolutionary change happens due to selection among mem
Introduction to Biological Anthropology: Notes 4
Kinds of variation, cumulative change, local optima, and rates of evolution
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Announcements
The first set of self-study questions is posted, both blank and with answers
The in-cl
Introduction to Biological Anthropology: Notes 3
Why evolution happens
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Announcements
Class user ID and password
Please send in photographs
Recall that Darwin's observations on the Beagle convinced him of the fact of evolutio
Introduction to Biological Anthropology: Notes 2
What evolution is and how Darwin became convinced of it
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Announcements
Remember to check the class website for reading assignments, announcements, etc.
you can click to it by go
Introduction to Biological Anthropology: Notes 1
Introduction to the course
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This is Anthropology 201: Introduction to Biological Anthropology
section 3
there are also two other sections that meet at a different time, use a di
