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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. Survey of the techniques and methods of biological anthropology as applied in the identification of human remains in a medico-legal context: field recovery of human remains, biological profile of deceased, antemortem trauma, cause/manner of death, time since death, and methods of individualization.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. Survey of the study and practice of the application of science to the resolution of social and legal issues, including current research and procedures in criminalistics, jurisprudence, odontology, pathology, physical anthropology, psychiatry, questioned documents, toxicology, and computers. NOTE: Lectures will be given by Lehman faculty and by guest lecturers who hold posts in local crime labs, medical offices, and mass-disaster squads.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. Human growth and development, with emphasis on those aspects of the growth process that concern the physical anthropologist: anthropometric techniques, skeletal and dental maturation, secular trends in growth, changing growth rates as a factor in human evolution, and human growth in varying physical and cultural environments.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. Biological inheritance in human beings. Emphasis on the genetic basis of human variation and its significance for evolution, medicine, education, and the law. Topics include twin studies, family pedigrees, mutation, selection, migration, race mixture, and behavioral genetics.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. Anatomy of nonhuman primates, especially skulls and teeth; study of fossil remains and analysis of their phylogeny and historical relationships. Evolutionary methods and philosophies.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. Introduction to the earliest cultures of South Asia (Pakistan and India), Southeast Asia (Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia), and East Asia (China, Japan) from the origins of food production through the rise of civilization.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. From Ice Age hunters to Hammurabi of Babylon: the major economic, social, and political changes that transformed societies of hunters and farmers into the world's first complex civilization.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. Native American cultures from all parts of the continent north of Mexico from the earliest peopling of the New World to the coming of Europeans. Ecology; the economics of subsistence and the politics of interaction; hunting and gathering and agriculture; warfare and cooperation.
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