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Human Origins
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ANTH 239 (Human Origins and
Evolution) is taught by Dr. John Relethford in the Department of Anthropology at the State University of New York
College at Oneonta, located in
(where else?) Oneonta, New York. This course provides a chronological history of human origins and evolution over the past six million years. Topics include: the divergence of ape and human lineages, the origin of bipedalism, dental evolutionary trends, the origins of culture and technology, the geographic dispersion of early humans, the origin of language, the origins of archaic and modern humans, the origin of art and symbolic behavior, and the rise of agriculture and civilization. Prerequisite: ANTH 130 or permission of instructor. |
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Instructions for optional
book review (Spring 2008) |
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