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Anthropology 101 - Human Biological Evolution

Syllabi

Pierce - Winter 2019
LA Harbor - Spring 2019

Videos

When We First Walked

When We First Walked

PBS EONS

When We First Made Tools

The Humans That Lived Before Us

When Apes Conquered Europe

Your Place in the Primate Family Tree

When We First Walked

The Island of Shrinking Mammoths

When Humans Were Prey

The Two People We’re All Related To

Can We Get DNA From Fossils

From the Fall of Dinos to the Rise of Humans

When We Tamed Fire

Crash Course

The Evolutionary Epic

Migrations and Intensification

Human Evolution

The Modern Revolution

The Modern Revolution

Anthropocene

Why Human Evolution Matters

The Nucleus

Why the Evolutionary Epic Matters

Why the Evolutionary Epic Matters

Why Human Ancestry Matters

Human Population Growth

5 Human Impacts on the Environment

DNA Structure Replication

Mitosis

Heredity

DNA Transcription and Translation

Meiosis

Natural Selection

Evolutionary Development

Taxonomy

Speciation

Population Genetics

Evolution

Darwin and Natural Selection

Eugenics and Francis Galton

Baba Brinkman

Senescence

Veni-vedi-vici (extinction)

Darwin Day

Natural Selection

Darwin's Acid

Natural vs sexual vs artificial selection

Gene's Eye View

Artificial Selection

Creationist Cousins

Performance, feedback, revision

D.N.A.

Robert Sapolsky Human Behavioral Evolution Lecture Series

First Lecture and Beyond

Additional Resources

Skull and suture game

https://www.purposegames.com/game/cranial-bones-sutures-quiz

Bones of the skeleton game

https://www.purposegames.com/game/bones-of-the-body-quiz

www.eSkeletons.otg

Science Websites

https://www.livescience.com/

https://www.eurekalert.org/

https://www.sciencedaily.com/

About Darwin:

www.aboutdarwin.com

http://darwin-online.org.uk/

American Anthropological Association

www.aaanet.org

The National Center for Science Education

http://ncse.com/

National Human Genome Research Institute:

http://www.genome.gov/

National Tay-Sachs & Allied Diseases Association

www.ntsad.org

Center for Evolutionary Psychology at the University of California Santa Barbara

www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep

The Linnean Society of London

www.linnaen.irg

Tree of life

http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html

Great Ape Trust

www.greatapetrust.org

Duke University Lemur Center

http://lemur.duke.edu

Comparative Mammalian Brain Evolution

http://neurosciencelibrary.org/

The Bonobo Conservation initiative

www.bonobo.org

Budongo Forest Project

www.budongo.org
Amboseli Baboon Research Project

https://amboselibaboons.nd.edu/

The Language Research Center

http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwlrc/

Human Behavior and Evolution Society

www.hbes.com

International Commision on Stratigraphy (ICS):

www.stratigraphy.org

Human Origins (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History)

http://humanorigins.si.edu

Becoming Human (Institute of Human Origins)

http://becominghuman.org

eFossils (University of Texas at Austin)

www.efossils.org

eLucy (University of Texas at Austin)

www.elucy.org

Koobi Fora Research Project

https://www.kfrp.com/

The Leakey Foundation

http://leakeyfoundation.org

National Museums of Kenya

www.museums.or.ke

The Neanderthal Museum:

www.neanderthal.de/en

Center for the Study of the First Americans (Texas A&M University)

www.centerfirstamericans.com

American Academy of Forensic Science

https://www.aafs.org/

American Anthropological Association: Understanding Race

http://www.understandingrace.org/

Race-The Power of an Illusion:

www.pbs.org/race

Darwinian Medicine

http://darwinian-medicine.com/

Society for Medical Anthropology

www.medanthro.net

Worldwatch Institute

www.worldwatch.org

United States and World Population Clocks

https://www.census.gov/popclock/

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