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Office Hours:
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to be announced
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trinkaus@artsci.wustl.edu |
| I. Introduction | Conroy 1 & 2 | |
| II. The Outline of Human Evolutionary History | ||
| Homonid origins to sedentism
Names, places, and ages |
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| III. Conceptual Approaches to Human Evolution | ||
| IV. A Little Bit of History: a Mirror for Mankind | ||
| V. Early Modern Humans | ||
| Working back from the Holocene - biocultural dynamics
Late Upper Paleolithic humans and global diversity Earlier modern humans from the last glacial The earliest modern humans |
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| VI. The Neandertals and Their Friends | Conroy 8 | |
| Portraits of late archaic humans
biology, behavior and pain Regional variation on a theme of strength |
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| VII. The Transition from Archaic to Modern | Conroy 9,10 | |
| Fossils, molecules, and biogeographic dynamics | ||
| VIII. The Emergence of Regionality in the Genus Homo | Conroy 7 | |
| Trends through the Middle Pleistocene
Brains, bodies, bifaces and brrr |
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| IX. Dispersal from the Homeland | ||
| Early Homo erectus and the subtropical world
Who nose? |
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| X. Who Made the Oldowan? | Conroy 6 | |
| Diversity among the earliest members of our genus
Teeth, rocks, faces, and limbs |
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| XI. The Fluorescence of the Austrolopithecines | Conroy 4 & 5 | |
| The "robust" Australopithecus radiation | ||
| XII. The Emergence of Bipedal Apes | ||
| Early Australopithecus and hominid origins
Geographical variations on a theme |
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| XIII. The Miocene Background | Conroy 3 | |
| From whence Australopithecus? | ||
The primary text for the course is G. C. Conroy, Reconstructing Human Origins (1997). It is available as a paperback. Approximately when the chapters should be read is indicated in the outline, but the chapter divisions do not match perfectly the outlined sections. In addition, a compendium of articles and chapters is available for purchase; when they should be read will be indicated during the semester.
Each student will have to take three exams, two hour exams and a final exam, plus write a research paper (ca.10-15 pages) on a topic directly relevant to the course. The dates of the hour exams will be announced in class; the final exam will be at the regularly scheduled time: May 9, 2000, 3:30-5:30 PM. The exams will be short and long essay in form and will require integration of lecture material and readings. The paper is due at the final exam, and the topics must be approved prior to submission.