 TEXT "F": J. Fleagle: PRIMATE ADAPTATION AND EVOLUTION. 3rd ed., Academic Press. Chapters in this book are listed below as F1, F2, etc. Lab schedule below is subject to change. |
W.S.U. Biology PRIMATOLOGY and HUMAN ORIGINS Prof. Eli C. Minkoff, Ph.D. 
Class HOME PAGE: Http://abacus.bates.edu/acad/depts/biobook/Prim14.htm |  TEXT "C": C.J. Campbell et al.: PRIMATES IN PERSPECTIVE. 2nd ed., Oxford Univ. Press. Chapters in this book are listed below as C1, C2, etc. LECTURE NOTES and Slides Class Grading policies Homo erectus artistry(?!) FINAL GRADES! Click here 12/15 |
(Many details are tentative and still subject to change.)
| DATES: | T O P I C S and READING ASSIGNMENTS: | _ M O N D A Y L A B S _ |
| Sep. 3, 5 | F1; C3. Course preliminaries. Adaptation and evolution.
Systematics. Who are the primates? Where do they fit among mammals? | (No lab this week) |
| Sep. 8,10,12 | F2,4; C4,5,6. Primate skulls, teeth, and diets. Living prosimians. | Primate characteristics |
| Sep. 15,17,19 | F10,11,12. Fossils. Primate origins; early primates. Fossil prosimians. NW monkeys. | Limbs & locomotion. |
| Sep. 22,24,26 | F5,9,14,6; C7-11, 36. Primate locomotion and adaptations. Old World monkeys. | Quiz #1 during lab. Platyrrhines. Prosimians when specimens come. |
| Sep.29; Oct.1,3<> | F8; C12-16, 25-29. Embryos, growth, childhood; Harlow's research. | Cercopithecoid primates |
| Oct. 6,8,10<> | F3; C32,34,37,39,40,42,44. Primate social lives, social organization, communities, ecology. | Baboon films (behav., social org.)(*) |
| Oct. 15, 17 | Review. FIRST EXAM. | (No lab this week) |
| Oct. 20,22,24 | C43. Primate behavior and intelligence: insight, tools, language. Film on Washoe(*) | Modern apes |
| Oct. 27,29,31 | F13,16. Early catarrhines; cercopithecoid evolution. | Non-hominid fossils |
| Nov. 3,5,7 | F7,10,11; C17-20. Gibbons and Great Apes. | Jane Goodall film ("My Life...")(*) |
| Nov. 10,12,14 | F15,18; C45. Fossil apes; evolutionary patterns; conservation | Disney "Chimpanzee" film(*) |
| Nov. 17,19,21 | F17. Hominid evolution | Quiz #2 during lab.
Australopithecus and bipedalism |
| Nov.24 | Archaeology and Civilization Online chart | Evolution of the genus Homo |
| Nov. 26-29 | HAVE A HAPPY THANKSGIVING! | |
| Dec. 1, 3, 5 | Human variation and race Online article by Barbujani/Pigliucci | Human variation |
| Dec. 8 | Summary and review | (No lab this week) |
| Dec. 15 | FINAL EXAM at 8:30 a.m. | (*)NOTE: all films are tentative |