 TEXT "F": J. Fleagle: PRIMATE ADAPTATION AND EVOLUTION. 3rd ed., Academic Press. Chapters in this book are listed below as F1, F2, etc. Course expectations Class Grading policies How To Study Academic Information |
W.S.U. Biology 333 PRIMATOLOGY and HUMAN ORIGINS Prof. Eli C. Minkoff, Ph.D. 
Class HOME PAGE: Http://abacus.bates.edu/acad/depts/biobook/Prim19.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 NOTICES: Final grades! (Update 5/14) |
(Some details are tentative and still subject to change.)
| DATES: | T O P I C S and READING ASSIGNMENTS: | _ T H U R S D A Y L A B S _ |
| Jan. 22, 24 | F1; C3. Course preliminaries. Adaptation and evolution.
Systematics. Who are the primates? Where do they fit among mammals? 1.Introduction | Primate characteristics |
| Jan. 29, 31 | F2,4,9; C4,5,6,33,36. Primate skulls, teeth, diets.
2.Skulls
Living prosimians. 3.Prosimians Limbs & locomotion. 4.Locomotion | Limbs & locomotion |
| Feb. 5, 7 | F10,11,12,5,14; C7-11.
Fossils: early primates, prosimians.
5.Fossils
New World monkeys 6.Platyrrhina | Prosimians. |
| Feb. 12, 14 | F6; C12-16.
Old World monkeys.
7.Cercopithecoidea Review.
FIRST EXAM (Thurs.) | Platyrrhines vs Catarrhines |
| Feb. 19, 21 | F3,8; C(pages 1-19 +Ch.25-29).
C43,37.
Embryos, growth; Harlow's research
8.Development Behavior and intelligence: insight, tools, symbolism. 9.Behavior | Baboon films (behav., social org.) |
| Feb. 26, 28 | Childhood and development. Language: Washoe and other signing apes. | Washoe film; discussion |
| Mar 5, 7 | Primate social lives: dominance, avoiding aggression, etc. 10.Sociobiology | |
| Mar. 9-17 | HAVE A HAPPY SPRING BREAK!
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| Mar. 19, 21 | C30,32,34,38,39,40,42,44. Primate social organization, communities, ecology. 11.Ecology | Modern apes |
| Mar. 26, 28 | F13,16. Early catarrhines; cercopithecoid evolution.
12.Fayum Review.
SECOND EXAM (Thurs.) | Non-hominid fossils |
| Apr. 2, 4 | F7; C17-20. Lesser Apes (gibbons) and Great Apes. 13.Apes | Jane Goodall film ("My Life...") |
| Apr. 9, 11 | F15,18; C45. Fossil apes; evolutionary patterns; conservation | Disney "Chimpanzee" film |
| Apr. 16, 18 | F17. Hominid evolution 14.Humans | Australopithecus and bipedalism
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| Apr. 23, 25 | Archaeology and Civilization 15.Civilization Online chart, etc. | Evolution of the genus Homo |
| Apr.30, May 2 | Human variation and race 16.Race Online article by Barbujani/Pigliucci | Human variation |
| May 7 | Summary, review, and discussion. | (No lab this week) |
| May 14 (Tue.) | FINAL EXAM at 8:30 a.m. |