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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Recommended requisite: course 7 or Life Sciences 1. Survey of research based on evolutionary psychology and human behavioral ecology. Review of relevant theory. Emphasis on empirical tests of evolutionary theories about human cooperation, social exchange, aggression, kinship, mate choice, marriage, and parental behavior. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Recommended requisite: course 7 or 12. Examination of human sexual relations and social behavior from evolutionary perspective. Emphasis on theories and evidence for differences between men and women in their patterns of growth, maturation, fertility, mortality, parenting, and relations with members of opposite sex. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Study of selected topics in biological anthropology. Consult Schedule of Classes for topics and instructors. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. Survey of primate paleontological and evolutionary record, encompassing prosimians, New and Old World monkeys, and hominoids. Attendant aspects of paleoecology and behavior. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Review of primate behavior as known from laboratory and field studies. Theoretical issues of animal behavior, with special reference to nonhuman primates. Discussion of human behavior as product of such evolutionary processes. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 128A. Analysis of evolution of sociality, sexual strategies, parenting behavior, fighting and contests, and altruism and cooperation in primate species. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. Evidence of disease and trauma, as preserved in skeletal remains of ancient and modern human populations. Discussions of medical procedures (trepanation), health status, ethnic mutilation (cranial deformation, footbinding), cannibalism, and sacrifice and roles such activities have played in human societies. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Requisite: course 9. Designed for juniors/seniors. Twentieth-century elaboration and development of concept of culture. Examination of five major paradigms: culture as human capacity, as patterns and products of behavior, as systems of meaning and cognition, as generative structure and semiotic system, as component in social action and reality construction. (Core course for cultural field.) P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Preparation: two lower division social sciences courses (may be from different departments). Examination of some basic questions addressed by anthropologists in their study of what is meant by culture. Consideration of theories of culture and evolutionary origins of culture. Review of new analytic methods that allow students to begin to do quasi-experimental research into nature of culture and introduction to multiagent simulation as framework for modeling how culture can be both supra-organic and embedded in minds of culture bearers. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Photographs in anthropology serve many purposes: as primary data, illustrations of words in books, documentation for disappearing cultures, evidence of fieldwork, material objects for museum exhibitions, and even works of art. Topics include relationships between subject and treatment of image, between art photography and ethnographic documentation, role of museum photograph and caption, social practice of taking pictures, and case study on photographing Middle East and North Africa. P/NP or letter grading.
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