Transfer Student Courses in Biological Anthropology This page was created at 7:09 PM on Mon, Jan 21, 2002. Winter Academic Term, 2002 (January 7 - April 26) Open courses in Biological Anthropology (*Not real-time Information. Review the "Data current as of: " statement at the bottom of hyperlinked page) Wolverine Access Subject listing for ANTHRBIO Winter Academic Term '02 Time Schedule for Biological Anthropology. ANTHRBIO 161. Introduction to Biological Anthropology. Section 001. Instructor(s): John C Mitani (mitani@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (NS). (BS). Does not count toward anthropology concentration requirements. Credits: (4). Course Homepage: https://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2002/winter/anthrbio/161/001.nsf What is the material basis of evolution? How have humans evolved? Why do humans behave in the manner that they do? This course seeks to answer these enduring questions. The course will be divided into three parts. We will begin by reviewing the theory of evolution and examining how evolution produces adaptations and creates new species. This section will conclude by outlining how evolution has shaped the behavior of our closest living relatives, the nonhuman primates. The second part of the course will be devoted to investigating the human fossil record and tracing the physical and behavioral evolution of our species. The course will conclude by asking how evolution has affected contemporary human behavior. The emphasis throughout will be on the processes that have shaped human evolution and how these have produced who we are. The course includes three lectures plus one discussion/lab meeting per week. Grades will be based on three midterms and GSI evaluation. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: 2 Waitlist Code: 1 ANTHRBIO 362. Problems of Race. Section 001. Instructor(s): Charles L Brace (clbrace@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: Sophomore standing. (3). (NS). (BS). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. The subject matter covered in this course is different from but complementary to that covered in Anthropology 347 which is more concerned with race relations. Anthropology 362, on the other hand, addresses itself to two main problem areas where race is concerned: (1) the common concept of race has an inadequate foundation in biology and must be dispensed with before we can make sense out of the very real aspects of human biological variation. This portion of the course treats the dimensions of human biological differences that can be traced according to selective force distributions and their changes through time. These will be contrasted with the biological traits that show regional clustering but which have no adaptive value and cannot therefore be hierarchically arranged. (2) If the common concept of race has an inadequate biological base, how did we get stuck with our generally held assumptions when it would appear that they owe more to folklore than to biology? This portion of the course deals principally with the history of the race concept. All the material covered by the course will be dealt with in lecture. Supplementary readings will be suggested from time to time, along with specific sections in the assigned texts. Texts: C.L. Brace, The Stages of Human Evolution. Lecture outlines (syllabus) and C.L. Brace, Race is a Four Letter Word will be available at Kinko's copying. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: 2 Waitlist Code: 4 ANTHRBIO 364. Nutrition and Evolution. Section 001. Instructor(s): Andres R Frisancho (arfrisan@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: Sophomore standing. (4). (NS). (BS). Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. The purpose of this course is to study nutrition from an evolutionary perspective. Specifically this course will examine: the evolutionary roots including mammalian evolutionary history, primate origins, fossil evidence from australopithecine to Homo sapiens food procurement through hominid evolution including the archaeological evidence about the evolutionary roots of human diet, the evolution of the digestive system and brain size of non-human and human primates; food and nutrients which examines the physiology of nutrient utilization from carbohydrates to fats and proteins, vitamins, minerals and electrolytes Homo sapiens food procurement from hunter-gathering, agriculture and animal domestication food and culture which examines the sociocultural factors that may have contributed to the practice of cannibalism, the ecological basis for the preference and food taboos in contemporary populations, the biological basis for the variability in the ability to digest milk, accommodation to dietary restriction throughout the life cycle, and the consequence of human endeavor to increase its food supply and decrease energy expenditure on the increased prevalence of obesity that is reaching epidemic proportions throughout the industrialized world. NOTE: All students are expected to know about the principles on which techniques of assessing body composition and nutritional status are based. Such knowledge will be tested on the exam. One option is to learn these techniques by having one's own body size and composition measured by another student, and to measure another student's body size and composition. Students may also choose the option of measuring the weight and fat percentage of their GSI, if their GSI agrees. Students who do not wish to have their body size and composition measured and/or who do not wish to perform such measurements on others will be excused from the assignment. Those who do not participate in these measurements will lose no points as a result. Instead, such students will be given written exercises addressed at interpreting these anthropometric measurements. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. ANTHRBIO 365. Human Evolution. Section 001. Instructor(s): Rachel Caspari (rcaspari@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: Sophomore standing. High school biology is assumed. (4). (NS). (BS). Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Human evolution has been a biological process with both social and physical aspects. Through lectures, discussion section, laboratory, and reading, the interrelated process of behavioral and physical change is outlined for humans and their ancestors. Emphasis is placed on evolutionary mechanisms, and context is provided through an understanding of the pre-human primates. The human story begins with origins and the appearance of unique human features such as bipedality, the loss of cutting canines, the appearance of continual sexual receptivity, births requiring midwifery, and the development of complex social interactions. An early adaptive shift sets the stage for the subsequent evolution of intelligence, technology, and the changes in physical form that are the consequence of the unique feedback system involving cultural and biological change. The "Eve" theory and other ideas about the origin of modern humanity and human races, and their development and relationships, are discussed in this context. Class participation and discussion are emphasized, and there is a required discussion/laboratory section for elaboration of lecture topics and supervised hands-on experience with primate skeletal material and replicas of human fossils. Student evaluations are based on two examinations, laboratory quizzes, and a laboratory exam. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: 2 Waitlist Code: 4 This page was created at 7:09 PM on Mon, Jan 21, 2002. 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