Week 1: Sep-20 to Sep-25
Lectures: Class procedures, policies, etc. The human skeleton; Evolution;

Movie: Darwin's Struggle: The Origin of Species

Discuss quiz

Week 2: Sep-27 to Oct-02

Paper due Wednesday night!

Read: Chapter 2
• Lectures: Geology, geochronology, paleoclimate

Movie: Darwin's Darkest Hour

Class movie: Middle Awash Paleoanthropology

Osteology Quiz!!!!!!!

Don't forget to look at the list of terms I expect you to know.

Rift animation (short)

Footage of the rift (short)

Birth of an Ocean (short)

California geology

Week 3: Oct-04 to Oct-09

Paper due Wednesday night!

Read: Chapter 2

• Lectures: Geology, geochronology, paleoclimate, speciesdon't forget to look at the list of terms I expect you to know.

Movie: Life After Dinosaurs

Movie: Grolar Bear

Movie: What is a species

1. Systematics reading 1: Ernst Mayr and 'species'
2.Systematics reading 2: Paleoanthropology
3. What is Cladistics
4. Speciation
ICZN

Don't forget to play around with the clickable hominid evolutionary tree and the list of the species names used by paleoanthropologists (note that I, like all paleoanthropologists, have opinions on the species names being used. I will explain in class the ambiguous way 'species' are named and the somewhat arbitrary/somewhat scientific way that species names become popular.

Week 4: Oct-11 to Oct-16

paper due Wednesday night!

• Lectures: Macroevolution 1: Cladistics and species concepts; Cladistics excercise;
Lectures: Fieldwork and lab work in paleoanthropology (see fossil hominid pipeline; History of paleoanthropology). Check out how things can go wrong in the process!

1. Systematics reading 1: Ernst Mayr and 'species'
2.Systematics reading 2: Paleoanthropology
3. What is Cladistics
4. Speciation
ICZN
1. Early Hominids--Diversity or Distortion? DOI: 10.1126/science.1078294

Short Grolar bear video

Movie on thinking of humans as a species: Homo sapiens: Birth of Humanity

Cladistics assignment

• Lectures: Macroevolution 1: Cladistics and species concepts; Cladistics excercise;
Lectures: Fieldwork and lab work in paleoanthropology (see fossil hominid pipeline; History of paleoanthropology). Check out how things can go wrong in the process!

Week 5: Oct-18 to Oct-23

Field to lab lecture, no paper assignment due

Learn some countries of eastern and southern Africa: Ethiopia, Chad, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, South Africa

•Midterm Thursday!

Week 6: Oct-25 to Oct-30

paper due Wednesday night!

Middle Miocene Dispersals of Apes DOI: 10.1159/000105148

New Apes Fill the Gap; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0710109105

Molecular view of human origins; 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2007.00840.x

Early Hominid Dental Evolution; DOI: 10.1126/science.1092978

Video: Ape to Man

Lectures: History of paleoanthropology; The Miocene; The Human-chimp split and Ardipithecus; Ardipithecus; Ardipithecus-early Australopithecus

Video: Tim White discusses Ardi

Week 7: Nov-01 to Nov-06

paper due Wednesday night!

On the Status of Australopithecus afarensis

Lucy 'redux':Afarensis 30 years later

IF YOU HAVE THE MOTIVATION... get the articles below for free by stopping by a Berkeley Library and emailing it to yourself!

10.1007/978-3-540-33761-4_50

The Species and Diversity of Australopiths William H. Kimbel

Lectures: Australopithecus afarensis; Southern African Australopithecus

Video: Homo naledi Dawn of Humanity!

Week 8: Nov-07 to Nov-12

Paper due Sunday night!

• Lectures: A. garhi, and the Homo/ Paranthropus split, Homo habilis, Homo erectus (ergaster) and the first diaspora; Homo erectus 1

Movie: Homo erectus

Reading: The Dispersal of Homo erectus from Africa and the Emergence of More Modern Humans

New Fossils Challenge Line of Descent in Human Family Tree DOI:

10.1126/science.317.5839.733 CSUEB periodical locator

Week 9: Nov-14 to Nov-19

Paper due Sunday night!

Reading: Homo in the middle Pleistocene: Hypodigms, variation, and species recognition DOI: 10.1002/evan.20160

• Lectures: Homo erectus

Henry Gilbert Homo erectus lecture

• Lectures: Homo erectus 2; Homo rhodesiensis/heidelbergensis • Neanderthals

Movie: Becoming Human Part 2

Week 10: Nov-21 to Nov-26& Week 11: Nov-28 to Dec-03

Watch NOVA | Becoming Human Part 3 documentary. Like the other, this is full of easy-to-detect oversimplifications.

Reading: The Origin of Modern Anatomy- By Speciation or Intraspecific Evolution?

Movie: Decoding Neanderthals

Reading: The Earliest Homo Sapiens (Sapiens): Biological, Chronological and Taxonomic

How culture shaped the Human Genome

Lectures; Neanderthals and Circum-diaspora Homo sapiens; Homo sapiens around the world

Video: The Incredible Human Journey Episode 1/5 Out Of Africa

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