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Spring 2025 Lecture Recitation Distance Learning Lower DivisionScience
Surveys our evolutionary journey, from fossil primates to modern humans, through a review of evolutionary theory and genetics, the fossil evidence for current theories in human evolution with insight from modern non-human primates, and the influence of environmental stressors on modern human biological variation.
Learning Outcomes1Define and explain the mechanisms of evolution and genetic inheritance.
2Identify the characteristics of non-human primates and describe their behavior, ecology, and evolutionary relationships to humans.
3Describe primate and human evolution as seen in the fossil record.
4Explain how evolutionary processes have led to contemporary human variation and behavior.
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