Topics vary each semester offered. Topics differ by section. Introduction to Biological Anthropology.
Topics differ by section.
Taught at the Florisbad Quaternary Research center in the South Africa summer program, with guest lectures by South African archeologists, palynologists, and geologists. Labs will emphasize work with recent and fossil faunal material and with Middle Stone Age artifacts. Taught in the field in South Africa during the summer. Evolutionary biology of the primates. Anatomical and behavioral adaptations and phylogeny of fossils and living primates including Homo sapiens .