Anthropology 101: Human Adaptation
Instructor: Betsy Abrams, Baxter 331C
Class meeting times: Tuesday - Thursday 1:00 pm -- 2:30 pm
Location: 128 Baxter
Course Description
Over the course of our history, humans have radiated into diverse habitats. After a brief consideration of the adaptions that define the human species, this course evaluates the resultant adaptations to wide-ranging environmental conditions, such as extreme temperatures, high altitude, prevalent infectious disease, and food shortages. Evidence from the fossil record and modern human physiology, genetics, and global distribution will be examined in the course.
Readings
- 01. Huss-Ashmore 2000.pdf
- 02. Isbell 1996.pdf
- 03. Laden 2005.pdf
- 04. Leonard 2003.pdf
- 05. Dunbar 1998.pdf
- 10. Molnar 2006.pdf
- 11. Jablonski 2002.pdf
- 12. Kormondy 1998.pdf
- 13. Nesse 1998.pdf
- 14. Cooke 2001.pdf
- 15. Barnes 1999.pdf
- 16. Yazdanbakhsh 2002.pdf
- 17. Eaton 1999.pdf
- 18. Ulijaszek 2002.pdf
- 19. Prentice 2001.pdf
- 20. Diamond 2003.pdf
- 21. Jasienska 2001.pdf
- 22. Rosenberg 20031.pdf
- 23. Bogin 2002.pdf
- 24. Sapolsky 2004.pdf
- 25. Neese 1994.pdf
- 26. Diamond 2002.pdf
- 6. Klein 2001.pdf
- 7. Lahr 1994.pdf
- 8. Holden 2004.pdf
- 9. Wong 2005.pdf
Lectures
- 01. Lecture 1 Evolutionary theory.pdf
- 02. Lecture 2 Australopithecine.2.pdf
- 03. Lecture 3 Homo.pdf
- Lecture 10 Diet & nutrition.pdf
- Lecture 11 Chronic disease.pdf
- Lecture 12 Reproduction.pdf
- Lecture 4 Modern humans.pdf
- Lecture 5 Culture & language.pdf
- Lecture 5 Culture & language1.pdf
- Lecture 6 Modern Human Variation web.pdf
- Lecture 7 Climate web.pdf
- Lecture 8 Infectious disease.pdf
- Lecture 9 Allergy.pdf