ENV 368Physical Anthropology

This course is an exploration of the human species and primate order in the biological context. The course will clearly define the field of physical anthropology and its relationship with the other fields of anthropology. Topics include human evolution, genetics, human variation, neural mechanisms and cognition, the biological basis of behavior, a non-human primate survey, non-human primate behavior, and functional morphology. Students will come away with an understanding of the human species place in the natural world.