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5.00 Credits
Introduction to theory, methods, and literature of biodemography. Examines biological mechanisms underlying patterns of aging, mortality, fertility, and population growth and decline. Includes readings from anthropology, sociology, demography, evolutionary biology, mo lar biology, and epidemiology. Covers prehistoric, historic, and modern human populations, and non-human model systems. Offered: W.
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5.00 Credits
Introduction to the theory and methods of based research in reproductive ecology. Covers lab methods for reproductive hormone assays, and their application in anthropological, biodemographic, and epidemiological research. Offered: Sp.
Prerequisite:
BIO A 201
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3.00 Credits
Concerns interrelationships between biomedical, sociocultural, and ecological factors, and their influence on the ability of humans to respond to variability in nutritional resources. Topics covered include diet and human evolution, nutrition-related biobehavioral influences on human growth, development, and disease resistance. Offered: jointly with NUTR 465.
Prerequisite:
BIO A 201
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
Individual research under the direction of a thesis advisor, culminating in a senior honors thesis. Open only to upper- students in departmental honors program.
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3.00 - 5.00 Credits
Delineation and analysis of a specific problem or a more general area in biocultural anthropology. Offered occasionally by visiting or resident faculty.
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5.00 Credits
Key concepts, research strategies, and debates concerning the processes and outcomes of human behavioral evolution. Emphasizes the complementarily of various methods and theories for understanding human biocultural evolution, including behavioral ecology, dual transmission theory, phylogentic analysis, and evolutionary psychology.
Prerequisite:
BIO A 201
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5.00 Credits
Shell-Duncan Mechanisms enabling humans to maintain homeostasis in extreme environments: high altitude, heat, cold, nutritional deficiency, radiation. Adaptive process operating at levels of physiology, metabolism, and population, including the strategies of fertility and birth spacing.
Prerequisite:
BIO A 201
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5.00 Credits
Examines the environmental impacts (positive and negative) among prehistoric and historic/ ethnographic small-scale (hunter-gatherer and horticultural) societies worldwide, and debates these impacts, within a theoretical framework provided by evolutionary ecology and biogeography. Offered: jointly with ENVIR 475.
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3.00 Credits
Leonetti Sociocultural ecology of health/ disease, focusing on humans as bioculturally integrated beings and on populations as biocultural units of adaptation. Examples of research on disease, both infectious and chronic, and patterns of morbidity and mortality, infant, maternal, old age, with particular attention to situations of sociocultural changes.
Prerequisite:
BIO A 201
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3.00 Credits
Critical examination of theories explaining the evolution of sex differences and associated gender roles. Consideration of gender differences in mate preferences, parental investment, subsistence, aggressiveness, and risk-taking. Stresses interactions between biology and culture.
Prerequisite:
BIO A 201
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