ARCH 333:Introduction to Physical Anthropology

This course is a survey of human evolution, variation and adaptation.  Knowledge about human beings as biological organisms is integrated with human ways of life for a bio-cultural approach to human evolution. The student will learn about human and non-human primates, human heredity, and variability of modern populations and fossil records of early hominids and hominoids.  The course will enable the student to think critically about human evolution and diversity, and to link the view of the past to the present conditions of human species.