Human Origins Lectures and Information on the Internet
These are links to lectures and information sources at other Universities etc. (c) 1997 Kevin L. Callahan
Human Origins Lectures on the Internet:
INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY Click hereRandy Skelton The University of Montana - Missoula
http://grizzly.umt.edu/anthro/notes/260/syll_260.htm
Individual lectures in a semester course: Click here
1. What is Physical Anthropology?
2. Genes and Gene Expression
3. Mendelian Inheritance
4. Mutation and genetic abnormalities
5. The history of evolutionary theory
6. The mechanisms of evolution
7. The genetics of behavior
8. Macroevolution
9. Neontology and paleontology
10. Principles of taxonomy
11. Principles of evolutionary analysis
12. What you can learn from bones
13. Interpreting the fossil record
FIRST MIDTERM EXAM Study Guide
Practice Exam
Part 2: The Non-Human Primates
14. Video: "A Life in the Trees"(VT 478)
15. Vertebrates, mammals, & archontans
16. Strepsirhines, and Haplorhines
17. Evolution of Monkeys and Apes
18. Introduction to primate behavior
19. Solitary & pair bonded primates
20. One male & age graded groups
21. Multi-male/multi-female groups.
22. Fission/Fusion Social System.
23. Video: "Otto the Zoo Gorilla"
24. Male vs female repro strategySECOND MIDTERM EXAMStudy Guide
Practice Exam
Part 3: The Evolution and Variation of Humans
25. Video: Mysteries of Mankind (VT 1334)
26. The Origin of Hominids.
27. The Australopithecines.
28. Early Homo
29. The beginnings of human culture
30. Homo erectus.
31. Transitionals and Neanderthals
32. Modern H. sapiens sapiens.
33. Human adaptability
34. The origin of modern populations
35. The nature of "racial" variation
36. Human morphological variation.
37. Biological adaptation to disease.
38. The future of human evolution.
THIRD MIDTERM EXAM Study Guide
Practice Exam
Practice Exam
The history of physical anthropology. Click here
http://grizzly.umt.edu/anthro/notes/583/583_l02.txt
The Mechanisms of Evolution Click here
http://grizzly.umt.edu/anthro/notes/583/583_l03.txt
HUMAN EVOLUTION Click here Randy Skelton The University of Montana - Missoula
http://taylor.anthro.umt.edu/notes/notes.htm
1. What is paleoanthropology
2. Skeletal & dental anatomy
3. What old bones can tell us
4. Evolution
5. Taxonomy, neontology, paleontology
6. Approaches to evolutionary analysis
7. Cladistics I - the basic method
8. Cladistics II - compatibility
9. Cladistics III - problems
10. Taphonomy and fossilization
11. Methods of archaeological inference
12. Evolution of the dentition
FIRST MIDTERM Study Guide 1 , Practice Midterm 1
Part 2: Evolution through the Australopithcines
13. Evolution and the early Earth
14. Archontans and primates
15. Catarrhine non-apes and monkeys
16. The apes I - fossil apes
17. The apes II - the Miocene muddle
18. The origin of bipedalism
19. Hominid teeth and brains
20. A. afarensis
21. A. africanus
22. The robust australopithecines
23. Earliest Homo
24. Australopithecine phylogenetics
25. The australopithecine way of life
26.Video: In Search of Human Origins, Part
SECOND MIDTERM Study Guide 2, Practice Exam 2
Part 3: The Evolution of Genus Homo
27. Early Homo's brain and language
28. The scavenging stage
29. H. erectus
30. The Big Game Use stage
31. Transitional H. sapiens
32. Neanderthaloids
33. Video: In Search of Human Origins, Part 2
34. The Middle Paleolithic
35. The origins of modern people
36. The Upper Paleolithic
37. Peopling the world
38. Video: In Search of Human Origins, Part 3
THIRD MIDTERM Study Guide 3, Practice Midterm 3
Practice Final Exam
OSTEOLOGY/FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY Click here Randy Skelton The University of Montana - Missoula
http://taylor.anthro.umt.edu/notes/notes.htm
Evolution of the skull
Info from bones
Taphonomy & Fossils
Paleopathology\
Humb1060 Lectures and Course notes.Click here
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/chb/h1060.html
LECTURES:
1.Lower and Middle Pleistocene - Homo erectus and Homo sapiens
2.The Upper Pleistocene
3.Homo sapiens - modern
4.Cautionary tale - the Races of Man
5.Measuring Heads
6.Retardation and neotony in human evolution
7.Evolution and Taxonomy
8.Primate Taxonomy
9.Fossil Primates 1
10.Fossil Primates 2
11.Primate Behaviour
12.Tool Use
Other course notes which may be of interest in future.
HUMB 3070 - Evolutionary Developmental Biology Click here
Lecture 1. How and why do we classify animals?
Lecture 2. Geological time Phyla then and now, Top of the pops
Lecture 3. The top ten phyla (continued)
Lecture 4. The curious history of the phyla
Lecture 5. Clarifying our thoughts about evolution
Lecture 6. Speciation and Extinction
Lecture 7. Multicellularity
Lecture 8. Introducing Larval Forms
Lecture 9. Embryology, classification and evolution.
Lecture 10. What is it possible/necessary to change?
A Course with Articles and Lectures on Paleopsychology or evolutionary psychology Click here
http://watarts.uwaterloo.ca/~acheyne/epsych.html
Evolution of Mitochondrial DNA
http://tilapia.unh.edu/WWWPages/mtdna.html
Neandertals and Modern Homo sapiens
http://www.cc.colorado.edu/Dept/AN/AN101Hoffman/Lectures/4neamod.html
The Psychology, Culture and Evolution home page has several sections and
subsections on the following topics, each with lots and lots of linked articles. See
especially the links for:
Brain, Consciousness, Language, Sociality, Group Selection
Center for Evolutionary Psychology at UCSB
Human Behavior and Evolution Society home page. See the critical article on the
background to evolutionary psychology: The (Im)moral Animal: A Quick
and Dirty Guide to Evolutionary Psychology & the Nature of Human Nature by Frank Mielke.
Simon Fraser University Evolutionary Psychology Research Group
A great site illustrating how National Geographic morphed Neandertal features onto
modern human adults and a child, using Neandertal fossil skulls. The site, if
you are equipped to view them, has several QuickTime video clips of the processes involved. The
site is called DE-EVOLUTION.Click here
National Geographic cover on NeandertalsClick here
http://www.bvl.uic.edu/bvl/ng/
Click here to download National Geographic’s morphing of a Homo sapiens to a Neandertal (outstanding) Click here
389K/590K Quicktime Video (~2 minutes to download) and 6 different reconstructions of what Neandertals may have looked like.
http://www.bvl.uic.edu/bvl/ng/
De-Evolution also has 6 reconstructions of Neandertals.Click here
http://www.bvl.uic.edu/bvl/ng/
Darwin's contribution to evolutionary theoryClick here
http://www.indiana.edu/~origins/teach/A105/lectures/A105L3L4.html
Mechanisms of Inheritance, and Implications for Our Future Click here
http://www.indiana.edu/~origins/teach/A105/lectures/A105L5L6.html
Our Primate Heritage: What can we learn from studying living primates? Click here
http://www.indiana.edu/~origins/teach/A105/lectures/A105L7L8.html
Our Primate Heritage, continued: Click here
http://www.indiana.edu/~origins/teach/A105/lectures/A105L9L10.html
Chimpanzees: Our sister species Click here
http://www.indiana.edu/~origins/teach/A105/lectures/A105L11.html
A Geological and Primate Time Scale & Fossil Evidence for Primate Evolution Click here
http://www.indiana.edu/~origins/teach/A105/lectures/A105L12L13.html
Miocene Apes and the Early Hominid Fossil Record Click here
http://www.indiana.edu/~origins/teach/A105/lectures/A105L14L15.html
Earliest Hominid Fossils: Click here
http://www.indiana.edu/~origins/teach/A105/lectures/A105L16L17.html
A Postulated Phylogenic Tree Diagram Click here
http://www.lib.uconn.edu:80/ArchNet/Topical/Educat/anth106/spring96/evolution.html
Human Origins Figures and Handouts Click here
http://www.lib.uconn.edu:80/ArchNet/Topical/Educat/anth233/233-SYL.html
African Pliocene & Pleistocene Hominids
Anatomical Planes and Directions
Anatomical Orientation
Anatomy of Bipedalism
Cladistics Terms
Comparative Brain Diagrams
Evolutionary Time Scale
The Human Skull
Primate Locomotion Diagrams
Primate Skeleton
Pleistocene Geochronology
Principal Methods of Dating
Gallery of Plio-Pleistocene Hominids
Chimpanzee, A. afarensis, A. africanus, A. robustus
A. boisei, H. rudolfensis, H. habilis, H. sapiens
More Pleistocence Hominids
Links to primate webpages Click here
http://www.indiana.edu/~origins/links/primate.html
GLOSSARY of ARCHAEOLOGICAL TERMS Click here
http://www.smu.edu/~anthrop/glossary.html
Physical Anthropology Click here
http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/students/b-sklar/physicalsection.html
-What is Physical or Biological Anthropology?
-Lucy
Predecessors to Man?
-Australopithecines
-Australopithecus afarensis
-Australopithecus africanus
-Australopithecus boisei
-Australopithecus robustus
The Emergence of Man
-Homo habilis
-Homo erectus
-Homo sapiens neanderthalensis
-Homo sapiens sapiens
Human origins in Africa Click hereThen click the
button on the left called "summaries" and "earliest peoples."
http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/arch/arch1/a1home.html
The Colonization of Europe Click hereThen click the
button on the left called "summaries" and "earliest peoples."
http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/arch/arch1/a1home.html
The Neanderthal Controversy Click hereThen click the
button on the left called "summaries" and "earliest peoples."
http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/arch/arch1/a1home.html
Modern humans and technological innovation after 35,000 BP Click hereThen click the
button on the left called "summaries" and "earliest peoples."
http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/arch/arch1/a1home.html
Postglacial Europe from 14,000 to 5000 BP Click hereThen click the
button on the left called "summaries" and "earliest peoples."
http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/arch/arch1/a1home.html
Human traits "What is uniquely human" and the Piltdown Hoax Click here
http://www.indiana.edu/~origins/teach/A105/lectures/A105L2.html
Archaeology Click here
http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/students/b-sklar/archaeosection.html
-What is Archaeology?
-Who?
-Lucy, What a Girl
-Piltdown, the forgery
-What?
-Artifacts- things, not people
-Fossils-people, not things
-Living Sites- in particular
-Fire
-Where?
-Archaeological Sites- in general
-How?
-Methods of dating finds
Archaeological Sites with maps Click here
http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/students/b-sklar/sites.html#hadar
Homo habilis Click here
http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/students/b-sklar/hhabilis.html -
Archaeological Sites
Diet and food supply
Fossil Finds
General Information
--Short overview
--Physical Features
Tool Cultures
Archaeological Sites Click here
http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/students/b-sklar/sites.html#olduvai
**The Sites In Alphabetical Order**
**Homo habilis sites ** Homo erectus sites**
** Homo sapiens neanderthalensis sites**
**Homo sapiens sapiens sites**
The World Lecture Hall (WLH) Click here
contains links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver class materials.
For example, you will find course syllabi, assignments, lecture notes, exams, class calendars, multimedia
textbooks, etc.
http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/index.html
Anthropology Courses on the WebClick here
http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/ant/
Biology and Evolutionary Theory: evolutionists and creationistsClick here
http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/faqs-evolution.html
Introduction to Evolutionary Biology
This essay is a must-read for anyone who wants to participate in talk.origins.
It lays out the land for
evolutionists and creationists alike,
presenting the ideas behind and the evidence for biological evolution.
What is Evolution?
All too often creationists spend their time arguing with a straw-man caricature
of evolution. This
brief essay presents a definition of evolution that
is acceptable to evolutionists.
Evolution is a Fact and a Theory
Biologists consider evolution to be a fact in much the same way that physicists do
so for gravity.
However, the mechanisms of evolution are less
well understood, and it is these mechanisms that are described by several theories
of evolution.
The Modern Synthesis of Genetics and Evolution
Darwin developed his theory of natural selection without any knowledge of genetics.
Since Darwin, genetics and evolution have been
synthesized, and natural selection is no longer considered to be the only evolutionary
mechanism.
Plagiarized Errors and Molecular Genetics
New evidence from molecular genetics joins with the immense body of clues from other
disciplines, collectively providing overwhelming evidence
for evolution.
Chance and Metaphysics
Evolutionary theory is a scientific theory dealing with scientific data, not a system
of metaphysical beliefs or a religion. It does, however, set the
sorts of general problems biology deals with and also acts as a philosophical attitude
in dealing with complex change.
Darwin's Precursors and Influences
It is sometimes claimed by those who wish to denigrate the achievements of Charles
Darwin that he was little more than a "serial plagiarist." This
essay aims to show that Darwin, like any scientist, had influences, but that he was honest
in his theoretical development.
Darwinism: What is it?
Do Darwinism and natural selection really conflict with what is now known about evolution?
Punctuated Equilibria
There are few components of modern evolutionary theory which seem so prone to
misinterpretation as Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould's
theory of punctuated equilibria. This article explains the purpose and meaning of
punctuated equilibria and dispels some of the myths about it.
Random Genetic Drift
Natural selection isn't the only mechanism of evolution. One of the most important theories
of evolution is genetic drift. Some have even argued
that drift is more important than natural selection in evolving new species.
Evidence for Evolution: An Eclectic Survey
This set of articles surveys some of the scientific literature presenting interesting or
unique lines of evidence for evolution. Cichlid fish, sexual
selection, sperm competition, and endosymbiosis are but a few of the topics discussed.
Evidence of Jury-Rigged Design in Nature
If all organisms were created individually, why do so many of them show examples of poor
design? Examples include the Panda's thumb, the
human urethra, "homosexual stabbing rape" in bedbugs, and detorted motion in gastropods.
Observed Instances of Speciation
Not only does this article examine in detail a number of observed speciation events, but
it also discusses the meaning of the word "species."
Some More Observed Speciation Events
This group of talk.origins articles contains some instances of speciation not covered
in the speciation FAQ by Joseph Boxhorn. References are
usually given for further reading.
Transitional Vertebrate Fossils
It is impossible to to debate creationists without hearing them claim that there are
no transitional forms in the fossil record. This essay puts the lie
to that claim by listing and briefly describing a large number of transitional fossils
among the vertebrates.
Fossil Hominids
Much of human evolution is well documented by the fossil record. This set of articles
covers the fossil evidence for such human ancestors as
Australopithecus afarensis, Homo habilis and Homo erectus. Creationist arguments about
these fossils are also confronted.
Piltdown Man
It took over 40 years to realize that Piltdown man, represented by hominid-like fossil
specimens found in Britain, was a fraud. Why did it take so
long to discover the hoax, who was the hoaxer, and what does this episode say about
evolution?
The Archaeopteryx FAQs
This set of articles describes almost everything one could ever want to know about
the reptilian/avian intermediary, Archaeopteryx. All known
fossil specimens are described, claims about Archae's possible forgery are assessed,
and creationist arguments against the fossil's transitional
status are dissected.
Horse Evolution
The evolutionary history of the horse has been reinterpreted in recent years, but
its record remains one of the most complete examples of species
evolution that biologists have.
The Natural History of Marsupials
This article is a concise presentation of the natural history of marsupials,
showing their evolutionary origins and outlining their representation in the
fossil record.
The Evolution of Color Vision
Creationists like to attack the eye as evidence of an organ that could not have
come to exist by any other means than creation. The evolution of
the eye (and specifically of color vision) are discussed in this article,
providing a fine counter-argument to creationist arguments from incredulity.
Feathers: Created or Evolved?
A plausible gradualistic origin path for feathers is proposed. The author notes
that feathers have separate structures which must work together
but that this is not necessarily evidence that feathers were designed (a common
creationist canard).
© 1997 call0031@tc.umn.edu
This page hosted by 
Get your own Free Home Page