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Fall 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 Outcomes1Explain the mechanisms of evolution and genetic inheritance.
2Apply principles of evolutionary theory to interpret contemporary human variation and behavior.
3Identify anatomical and behavioral characteristics of non-human primates and describe their evolutionary relationships to humans.
4Use the fossil record to describe primate and human evolution.
5Describe ethical issues in biological anthropology.
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