RESOURCES
COURSE SCHEDULE: file:///Users/izzylapidus/Downloads/Origins%20of%20Human%20Society_F2020%20(4).pdf
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PART 1: An Anthropology of Origins and Evolution
WEEK 1
Wednesday 9/9
Origins and myths –Introduction
WEEK 2
Monday 9/1w
Wednesday 9/16
An anthropology of human origins
Darwin, inheritance, and genes
Wictor Stoczkowski (2002). Prehistory and the conditioned imagination. In Explaining Human Origins: Myth, Imagination and Conjecture, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, pp. 3-28.
https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/evolution-is-change-in-the-inherited-traits-15164254/-https://www.salon.com/test2/2015/05/30/secrets_of_charles_darwins_breakthrough_the_real_story_of_how_we_got_to_evolution/-https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/mutation-not-natural-selection-drives-evolution
WEEK 3: Essay 1 Due
Monday 9/21
Wednesday 9/23
Describing relatedness
Science stories
https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/why-should-we-care-about-species-4277923/
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129554-400-there-is-no-dna-test-to-prove-youre-native-american/
Start reading: Jonathan Marks (2017). Is Science Racist? Polity Press, Cambridge UK.
In class activity: Critical reading of three human origins narratives
Finish reading Is Science Racist?https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/02/the-unwelcome-revival-of-race-science
PART 2: The Creative Revolution
WEEK 4
Monday 9/28
Wednesday 9/30
Hominins before humans
Behavioral modernity