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2011 / 2012Graduate Schools of Arts & SciencesCourses

Human Origins

GRS AN 731

Credits:
4
Offered:
either sem.

Introduction to human paleontology and methods for reconstructing the ancestry, structure, diet and behavior of fossil primates and humans. Survey of primate and hominid fossils, priimate comparative anatomy, radioactive dating, modlecular and structural phylogenies, climactic analyses, and comparative behavioral ecology.

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