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Anthropology 101/111 - Human Biological Evolution/Lab

Syllabi

ANTH 101

Pierce - Winter 2019
LA Harbor - Spring 2019

ANTH 111

Pierce - Winter 2019
LA Harbor - Spring 2019

Additional Resources

The following are concerned with themes and topics related to the course. Available for extra credit, geeking out, and diving deep.

Books

Behave: The Biology of Humans At Our Best and Worst  by Robert M Sapolsky
Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick 
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why  by Laurence Gonzales 
Exploring Biological Anthropology by Stanford, Allen and Antón.
From Bacteria to Bach and Back - The Evolution of Minds  by Daniel C Dennett
Homo Deus - A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harrari
How Emotions Are Made  by Lisa Feldman Barrett
How Humans Evolved  by Boyd, R., Silk, J. B.
Our Origins: Discovering Physical Anthropology by Clark Spencer Larson
Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harrari
The Blank Slate  by Steven Pinker
The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B.  White 
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century by Steven Pinker
Through a Window by Jane Goodall 
Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers - The Acclaimed Guide to Stress , Stress Related Diseases, and Coping  by Robert M Sapolsky

TV Show Episodes/Movies

"Fire" - E:01 - Origins: The Journey of Humankind" - National Geographic

"Medicine" - E:02 - Origins: The Journey of Humankind" - National Geographic

"The Writing on the Wall" - E:04 - Origins: The Journey of Humankind" - National Geographic

"The Road Ahead" - E:08 - Origins: The Journey of Humankind" - National Geographic

"11001001" - S:1 E:15 - Star Trek: The Next Generation

"Unnatural Selection" - S:2 E:7 - Star Trek: The Next Generation

"The Measure of a Man" - S:2 E:9 - Star Trek: The Next Generation 

"Contagion" - S:2 E:11 - Star Trek: The Next Generation

"Up the Long Ladder" - S:2 E:8 - Star Trek: The Next Generation

"Evolution" - S:3 E:1 - Star Trek: The Next Generation 

 "The Hunted" - S:3 E:11 - Star Trek: The Next Generation

 "The High Ground" - S:3 E:12 - Star Trek: The Next Generation

 "The Offspring" - S:3 E:16 - Star Trek: The Next Generation

 "Allegiance" - S:3 E: 18 - Star Trek: The Next Generation

 "Captain’s Holiday" - S:3 E: 19 - Star Trek: The Next Generation

 "Tin Man" - S:3 E:20 - Star Trek: The Next Generation

 "Hollow Pursuits" - S:3 E:21 - Star Trek: The Next Generation

 "The Most Toys" - S:3 E:22 - Star Trek: The Next Generation

 "Sarek" - S:3 E:23 - Star Trek: The Next Generation

 "Transfigurations" - S:3 E: 25 - Star Trek: The Next Generation

 "The Best of Both Worlds" - S:3 E: 26/ 4:1 - Star Trek: The Next Generation

 "Brothers" - S:4 E:3 - Star Trek: The Next Generation

 "Suddenly Human" - S:4 E:4 - Star Trek: The Next Generation

 "Data’s Day" - S:4 E: 11- Star Trek: The Next Generation

 "Clues" - S:4 E: 14 - Star Trek: The Next Generation

 "First Contact" - S:4 E: 15 - Star Trek: The Next Generation

 "Galaxy’s Child" - S:4 E: 16 - Star Trek: The Next Generation

 "Night Terrors" - S:4 E: 17 - Star Trek: The Next Generation

 "Identity Crisis" - S:4 E: 18 - Star Trek: The Next Generation

 "The Nth Degree" - S:4 E: 19 - Star Trek: The Next Generation

 "The Host" - S:4 E: 23 - Star Trek: The Next Generation

 "In Theory" - S:4 E: 25 - Star Trek: The Next Generation

 "Darmok" - S:5 E: 2 - Star Trek: The Next Generation

 "Silicon Avatar" - S:5 E: 4 - Star Trek: The Next Generation

 "The Game" - S:5 E: 6 - Star Trek: The Next Generation

 "Unification" - S:5 E: 7/8  - Star Trek: The Next Generation

 "The Masterpiece Society" - S:5 E: 13  - Star Trek: The Next Generation

 "Ethics" - S:5 E: 16  - Star Trek: The Next Generation

 "The Outcast" - S:5 E: 17  - Star Trek: The Next Generation

 "I, Borg" - S:5 E: 23  - Star Trek: The Next Generation

 "Time’s Arrow" - S:5/5 E: 26/1  - Star Trek: The Next Generation

 "True Q" - S:6 E: 6  - Star Trek: The Next Generation

 "Ship in a Bottle" - S:6 E: 12  - Star Trek: The Next Generation

 "The Chase" - S:6 E: 20  - Star Trek: The Next Generation

 "Rightful Heir" - S:6 E: 23  - Star Trek: The Next Generation

 "Second Chances" - S:6 E: 24  - Star Trek: The Next Generation

 "Descent" - S:6/7 E: 26/1  - Star Trek: The Next Generation

 "Liaisons" - S:7 E: 2  - Star Trek: The Next Generation

A Clockwork Origin” - S:6 E:9 - Futurama

“The Missing Link” - S:7 E:9 - Futurama

“Gorillas in the Mist” - (1988 Film)

"Inherit the Wind" - (1960 Film)

Course Relevant Videos

TED-esque Lectures 

The evolving story of human evolution | Melanie Chang

How a new species of ancestors is changing our theory of human evolution | Juliet Brophy

Stone Tools and the Evolution of Human Behavior | John Shea

How fire and lava may have made us who we are | Michael Medler

The surprising science of alpha males | Frans de Waal

Moral behavior in animals | Frans de Waal

What you need to know about CRISPR | Ellen Jorgensen

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

When We Tamed Fire

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 Took Over The World

Crash Course

Radiocarbon Dating

The Evolutionary Epic

Migrations and Intensification

Anthropocene

Why Human Evolution Matters

The Nucleus

5 Human Impacts on the Environment

DNA Structure Replication

Mitosis

Natural Selection

Evolutionary Development

Taxonomy

Darwin and Natural Selection

Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology

Joints

Carbon Dating in Danger?

Human Evolution

The Modern Revolution

The Modern Revolution

Why the Evolutionary Epic Matters

Why the Evolutionary Epic Matters

Why Human Ancestry Matters

Human Population Growth

Heredity

DNA Transcription and Translation

Meiosis

Speciation

Population Genetics

Evolution

Eugenics and Francis Galton

The Skeletal System

Archaeology vs Paleontology

Short Clips​

Senescence

Veni-vedi-vici (extinction)

Darwin Day

Natural Selection

Darwin's Acid

Gene's Eye View

Artificial Selection

Creationist Cousins

Performance, feedback, revision

D.N.A.

Baba Brinkman

Designer Babies

Forbidden Cave

Apes with Tools

Overpopulation

Walking With Lucy

Robert Sapolsky 

Human Behavioral Evolution Lecture Series

Is Moral Disgust Just Bad Evolution? | Robert Sapolsky

Are Humans Hardwired to Be Cruel to Each Other? | Robert Sapolsky

Additional Internet Resources

APA Format

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.html

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

Skeleton Resources

www.eSkeletons.org

https://sketchfab.com/mzechini/collections/roger-recommended-osteology-guide-for-e-readers?fbclid=IwAR3hkIdfNlOINar9W3LLqvRQi6YDc9KSNeoo5pIM6QGt-g6GAuoklv1f0lg 

eFossils

http://www.efossils.org/

Science Websites

https://www.livescience.com/

https://www.eurekalert.org/

https://www.sciencedaily.com/

About Darwin:

www.aboutdarwin.com

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

The Visible Ape Project

https://www.visibleapeproject.com/sample-list-test-page

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

Virtual Curation Lab

https://sketchfab.com/virtualcurationlab/models

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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