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Week 3           Biological Anthropology

Weekly Topics and subtopics


Primates Human as Primates and Modern Human Adaptations Paleoanthropology


Basic Overview of PaleoanthropologyHistory of the Old EarthDating Methods Used in PaleoanthropologyHistory of PaleoanthropologyEvolutionary lines, trees, bushes, and speciesArdipithecusAustralopithecusHomoPutting it all together

Homo


Origins and definition of genus Homo Homo habilis and the Oldowan Early Homo erectus (Homo erectus ergaster) and The First Exodus from Africa Climate Change, Possible Dispersals, and Afrocentrism 1 Million Years Ago: Brains, Fire, and Handaxes African Advances Neanderthals and others in the Middle Pleistocene Immediate Ancestors of Homo sapiens and Ante-Diaspora Homo sapiens Modern Homo sapiens and the Diaspora