ANTH 2200 - Human Adaptation And Variation

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Stockton University

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Is culture an evolutionary adaptation? This course provides an introduction to variation and adaptation within modern human populations. The contributions of culture and biology to variation among human populations will be compared and contrasted. Particular attention will be paid to the role of evolution in shaping populations. Concepts of race/ethnicity and sex/gender will be discussed from anthropological, biological and historical perspectives. The effect of stressors and cultural mitigation of stressors will be discussed. Seemingly harmful variations, such as genetic disease, will be examined from adaptational and cultural perspectives. The genetic, fossil, and linguistic evidence for long-term. migration patterns of humans will be examined to better understand the distribution of human traits today. Faculty: M. LEWIS 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Social & Behavioral Sciences Division Sociology and Anthropology Department

Credits:

4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.stockton.edu

Phone Number:

(609) 652-1776

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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