Download L48 Anthro 362 01

BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR
ANTHROPOLOGY 362 - SPRING 2014
Instructor: R.W.Sussman
Office: Macmillan 102, Office hours: MW 11-12 and by appointment
Text: The Biological Basis of Human Behavior + readings on line
(see attached reading list)
Course Requirements: 200 points: 2 exams in lecture
100 points: participation in discussion
group
Part I: Introduction: Evolution and the Origins of Variability
Aug. 27 - Sept. 19
A. Why Anthropology?
B. Variability and Evolutionary Forces
1. Sources of genetic variability - Meiosis
2. Hardy Weinberg Equilibrium
3. Mutation, selection, gene drive, and gene flow
4. Is selection still occurring in modern humans?
Part II: Introduction: What did we inherit from our ancestors?
Sept. 19 - Oct. 3
A. Taxonomy and vertebrate evolution
1. Taxonomy and systematics
2. Major adaptive shifts and vertebrate evolution
B. Primates
1. What is a primate - taxonomy
2. What is a primate - morphology
3. What is a primate - origins and adaptive shift
C. The earliest human primates
Part III. Evolutionary History: Evolution of Human Behavior
Oct. 3 -Oct. 17
A. Early hominid behavior
1. Overview of human evolution
2. The earliest hominids - Australopithecines
3. Models of early human behavior
4. The repeated myth of Man the Hunter/ Man the Killer
B. Origins of modern humans
1. Early archeological evidence of Homo sapiens
2. Deception in primates and self deception in humans
3. What is culture?
Part IV. Man as a Biological Species
Oct. 17 - 31
A. Races and racism
1. Human population growth and dispersal
2. What is race and subspecies in biology
3. History of racism
4. Are there human races?
Part V. The New Biological Determinism
Oct. 31 - Nov. 28
A. Evolutionary Psychology, Evolutionary Anthropology, etc.
1. The nature of human universals
2. Are we inherently infidels?
3. Are we inherently violent?
4. What did we inherit?
Part VI. Hormones, the Brain and Behavior
Nov. 28 – Dec. 10
A.
B.
C.
D.
Sex differences and the brain
Hormones and behavior
Stress, hormones and social context
The evolution of the brain and human consciousness
ANTHRO 362/SPRING 2014
Sussman
INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL
Aug. 27
Syllabus - Course organization and why anthropology?
29* Organize discussion sections
Sept 1
Holiday
3
Origins of genetic variability - why are we all
different?
5* Discuss chapters 1–3; Weiss&Buchanan; Cloud.
8
Mendelian Genetics
10
Forces of evolution
12* Discuss chapter 5; Sargis; Changizi;
Tattersall “Evolutionary framework (only to Arrvial of
Homo sapiens); Balter.
EVOLUTION OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR
15
Selection and modern humans
17
Zoological names and vertebrate evolution
29* Discuss Chapters 11, 13-15; 18-19.
22
What is a primate – taxonomy/morphology (ppnt)
24
Primate origins - a major adaptive shift (ppnt)
26* Discuss Chapters Sussman&Hart; 21; Tattersall(from
arrival of Homo sapiens); 25.
29
Primate origins (ppnt)
Oct. 1
Hominid origins/another adaptive shift/deception(ppnt)
3* MIDTERM
6
The recurrent Man the Hunter/Man the Killer myth(ppnt)
8
Man the Hunted (ppnt)
10* Review midterm, discuss Chapters Allen&Templeton; 2829; Graves.
RACE AND RACISM
13
Early human diversity –lecture: – Does race exist?
15
Biological Concept of Race (Guest lecture)
17* HOLIDAY
20
Race and racism (ppnt)
22
Race and racism (ppnt)
24* Discuss Chapters 31-33; 38.
THE NEW BIOLOGICAL DETERMINISM OR NOT
27
Race and racism (ppnt)
29
Intro to Sociobiology (ppnt) + Video
31* Discuss Chapters Sussman(History of Racism); 39.
Nov
3
Are we infidels by nature? Video
5
Guest Lecture – Gender roles
7* Discuss Chapters 40-44; Sussman (What a tangled web).
10
Demonic Males - Video
12
Are nonhuman and human primates violent by nature?
BRAINS AND HORMONES
14* Discuss Jones; Vogel; MacKinnon & Fuentes; Sussman &
Garber; Pope
17
Guest Lecture – A gene for violence?
19
Open for Makeup lecture or open discussion
21* Open discussion – Discuss Hauser et al.; Siegel;
Chapters 51, 57
25
The evolution of cooperation (ppnt)
26-28 Thanksgiving Break
Dec. 1
Evolution of cooperation {ppnt)
3
Evolution of cooperation (ppnt)
5* Discuss Ripley; Gibson; Rilling; Hart & Sussman
(evolution of cooperation); Chapter 59.