ENVI 106
Human Evolution: Down From the Trees, Out to the Stars
Last Offered Spring 2008
Division II
Cross-listed ANTH 102
This course is not offered in the current catalog

Class Details

One important way of understanding what it means to be a human being is to see humankind as an evolving biological species. This course traces the story of our evolution, in terms of both the fossil evidence of our anatomical evolution and the archaeological, primatological, and conjectural evidence for the evolution of human behavior. We will trace five million years of human (and near-human) history as our ancestors are transformed from creatures of the forest canopy to upright scavengers of the African plains, to the fire-using species that burst out of Africa and spread across the globe, to the cold-adapted Neanderthals, to the anatomically modern humans whose ability to manipulate symbolic communication has placed footprints on the moon while bringing us to the verge of self-destruction.
The Class: Format: lecture/discussion
Limit: 40
Expected: 30
Class#: 3113
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: research paper, two quizzes, two exams, group presentations
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: first- and second-year students
Distributions: Division II
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
ENVI 106 Division II ANTH 102 Division II
Attributes: ENVI Humanities, Arts + Social Science Electives

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