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Biological Anthropology B: Human Evolution - BIOS3711
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Faculty: Faculty of Science
 
 
School:  School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences
 
 
Course Outline: http://www.science.unsw.edu.au
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite BIOS1101, BIOS1201
 
 
Excluded: ANAT2611
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

This course examines the field of palaeoanthropology. It examines evidence for our early ape ancestors, the emergence of human lineage, earliest hominines, australopithecine diversity and palaeobiology, genus Homo up to the emergence of modern humans (a topic explored further in ANAT3601), and the origins of human language, culture and lifestyle and ecology. It draws heavily on evidence from human fossil record in considering major adaptations of the human lineage and evidence of anatomical change. The multidisciplinary approach of modern palaeoanthropology is examined in recognition of the complex nature of the evidence for biological origins.

Note: This course is offered every second year (odd years), commencing in 2009.

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