assignment 9/14

1. Read pages 24-32
2. Choose a person that was influential in the history of our understanding of evolution

(darwin is off limits)

3. Create a poster that highlights the following

a. Personal History
b. How they contributed to the evolutionary theory
c. An example of how their piece of the evolutionary theory is involved with our understanding of human evolution

Class Info 2012 Semeter 1

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 an individual read pages 2-14.
6. As a tribe 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.

Final Exam

Take Home Exam- Entire exam is open resource.  Must be your own work.
Copying someone else is still not considered open book.

1. Multiple choice
2. Essay (2 page maximum)

6/1/12

Class assignment
 Read Article Skin Deep by Nina Jablonski
Watch Ted Talk Breaking the Illusion of Skin Color
Post Notes on the following questions.
How did human skin color evolve?
How is it related to both ancient and modern human migration patterns?
 Support your statements with specific evidence

Human evolutionary expansion 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.

3/27 assignment

1. Technology- Research the fishing technologies of the following groups

A. The Inuit
B. The Yanomamo
C. Inca


Include in your description

1. the tools they used and how to make them.
2. The food preservation/ cooking techniques.

3/26 assignment

1. Complete key African fossil sites handout

2. Complete notes on chap 12 Homo erectus (due Friday)