ANTH 345 - Human Evolution and Diversity
Description
Hours: Three hours lecture per week Prerequisites: Junior Standing and successful completion of Golden Four GE Areas (A1, A2, A3, B4) Description: Human biological evolution from the African savannah of 5 million years ago to the present, focusing upon adaptation to environmental conditions, disease, diet. Includes segments on ecology, evolutionary theory, genetics, natural selection, non-human primates. Discusses the concept of race from an anthropological perspective. Includes issues of speciation and race, adaptation to cold, heat, desert, tropics, and diseases. Compares ethnicity vs. race.
Meeting Information
Days | Times | Room | Meeting Dates | Instructor |
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ARR | Online | 1/22/2022 - 5/20/2022 | Matthew Curtis |
Status: Open
Class Number: 1113
Session: Regular Academic Session
Units: 3.00
Class Components: Lecture
Career: Undergraduate
Dates: 1/22/2022 - 5/20/2022
Grading: Letter Grade
Class Availability
Information below is 24 hours old.
Enrollment Total: 43
Available Seats: 2
Wait List Capacity: 10
Wait List Total: 0
Textbook / Other Materials
Status: RequiredISBN: 9780393533156
Title: How Humans Evolved (Paperback + Inquizitve)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Author: Boyd
Status: Required
ISBN: 9780393533088
Title: How Humans Evolved (Ninth Edition)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorp
Author: Boyd
Status: Required
ISBN: 9781615194940
Title: Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
Publisher: Experiment LLC, The
Author: Rutherford
More textbook information including prices
Enrollment Information
- Upper Division
- Asynchronous online
- Interdisciplinary Approaches Mission Pillar
- Upper Div - B Scientific Inq & Quantitative Reason