Human Origins
CAS AN 331
- Credits:
- 4
- Offered:
- either sem.
- Undergraduate Prerequisites:
- CAS AN 102 or CAS AR 101 or CAS BI 107; or equivalent.
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, primate comparative anatomy, radioactive dating, molecular and structural phylogenies, climactic analyses, and comparative behavioral ecology.
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