ANTH 168
INTRO TO BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Department: Anthropology
Course Number: ANTH 168
Section: 01 Term: I (May 30-June 30)
Credits: 4
Level: Undergraduate
Course Type: Lecture/Discussion

Develops an understanding of humans in the context of 1) their evolution and 2) their interactive processes of human behavior/culture and biology. Topics covered are mechanism of human evolution; our primate relatives and their evolutionary history; the fossil and artifactual evidence for human evolution over the past several millions of years; the biobehavioral and biocultural and biological/genetic variations found in our species today and how they reflect our evolutionary past; and explanations for these variations that may be attributed to evolutionary processes and adaptation to the environment.

Instructor: D.A. Merriwether
andym@binghamton.edu

Days: MTWRF
Times: 10:00 am - 11:40 am

Prerequisites: None
School: Harpur
BU Gen Ed: G, N
High School: This course IS NOT suitable for High School students.

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