Expanding your understanding of Human Evolutionary Patterns

Scientific American Special Issue May 2003

Read The articles in Emergence.

Start with

1.Out of Africa again ... and again
2.The Multiregional Evolution of Humans
3.The Recent African Genesis of Humans

We will discuss the theories and you will need to individually post what theory you subscribe to.

12/05

Read this

Peer Review

Peer Review

Geological timeline lab

Use this Protocol for your lab

Welcome Fall 2011

Welcome to Physical Anthropology

• Get a gmail account
• Week 1 assignment

Communication??? Minds big bang

Chap 2 Exemplars

Tribe 1

Tribe 2

Tribe 3

Tribe 4

Tribe 5

Tribe 6

Quiz for thursday

Apparently the online version of the textbook is now locked. I will be pushing the quiz back because of this. We will discuss this in class tomorrow.

Homework 2/17

Look through the class blogs and decide which posts are the best.

post your choices in the comments section below

Format for the post is as follows:

Tribe #
Post Title:

Use this link If you need to look at the textbook to see each section of the chapter.


Tribe 1

Tribe 2

Tribe 3

Tribe 4

Tribe 5

Tribe 6

Welcome Semester 2

Today

1. Get a gmail account (if you don't have one)
2. Submit contact information

3. Create a Tribe
4. Get blog assigned by tribe
5. As a tribe read chap 1 and create an e-textbook on you blog. Use other blogs as inspiration for how you should create your own. Multimedia goes a long way to making a valuable product.

Notes and presentations

Modern Human Pre-colonization

Pre-australopethicus

Mid term

1. Technology Presentation- if you haven't done one you need to give me a presentation on video. If you need a camera to do this there are lots of options. (use a phone camera, take stills and make a powerpoint, borrow a video camera from me and record your presentation in my classroom)
2. Current Events Presentation- Same as above
3. Article reading and response
This is the article on the Evolution of Human Skin Color
This is a presentation on the Evolution of Human Skin Color


The question you need to answer in you paper is- Why is there such a variety of skin colors for Homo sapien. Include in your answer the evolutionary pressures that has lead to these trends. Support you argument with evidence. Make sure you explain why humans today don't follow the same geographic distribution of skin color that our ancestors did.

4. In class testing. You may bring any notes you want to the exam. I will post the powerpoint presentations if each group sends them to me.

Human Evolution

1.Notes posted to google docs on your topic
A. Anatomy and Physiology
B. Where and When did they live. Includes archeological sites and evidence
C. Culture and Technology
2. Presentation
1 class period
A. Info From Notes
B Relationship to Modern Human
C.Current Research
D.Which theory of Human Migration do you believe is true based on your research.