ANTH 102: Humans are cultural animals
Spring quarter, 2008
Jim Moore jjmoore@ucsd.edu
TA: Marisa Peeters mpeeters@weber.ucsd.edu
Welcome to the website for ANTH 102 (Spring 2008)
(The course title results from a misunderstanding & will be changed.)
NOTE: This website is intended for the use of students in this course; please to not misuse copyrighted materials.
Syllabus
Note this not updated each time readings added - be sure to check by lecture, below.
Lectures (available for at least 1 week following the day given; note that the video clips are not included in online lectures.)
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Readings
You should be able to download most articles FREE via MELVYL or ROGER from any campus computer (or home, once you configure your proxy server -- contact ACS - not me - for help on that). NOTE: Please keep in mind that the chapter assignments for DS Wilson book are on the syllabus, NOT here.
Assigned:
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Lect 2
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Hrdlicka 1918
Lewis 1998
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Lect 3
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Platt 1964
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Lect 4
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Wiens 2002
Handout on dating methods
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Lect 5
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Weston 1998
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Lect 6
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Lect 7
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Review any basic biology/bioanthro text chapter on genetics
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Lect 9
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Insel & Young (2001)
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Lect 10
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Midterm
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Lect 11
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van Schaik (2006) Scientific American
Allometry handout Assigned
Nerves & hormones handout Optional (if you need to ground the hormone stuff better.)
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Lect 12
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Lect 15
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Lect 16
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AAPA Statement on Biological Aspects of Race
Cartmill 1998
Understandingrace.org (not assigned)
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Lect 17
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Lect 19
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Bogin 2006
Hrdy 2005
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Lect 24
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Dar-Nimrod & Heines 2006
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Only if you're interested:
Martin Daly and Margo Wilson have written extensively on evolutionary psychology, especially as it relates to violence. For a list of their publications, click here.
The 12 January 2006 issue of Nature has a review of a recent book that examines the relationship among free will, neurobiology, epigenesis, and the law. The review is only a page long and gives you the idea... pdf here.
Steve Pinker has written eloquently (and perhaps correctly) on the role of natural selection shaping "brain modules" such as the "language organ" that Noam Chomsky advocates. In this New York Times Magazine article he talks about our instinctive morality. I'm not at all sure I buy it, but it is interesting & state of the art in an important modern debate....
Pinker 2008 pdf (3mb)
Another take on natural selection
CONTACT [SETI etc.]
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