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Biological Anthropology A : The Primates - BIOS3701
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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: GENM0201
 
 
Fee Band: 5 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

This course examines the study of primates (lemurs, lorises, monkeys, apes and humans) within comparative, functional and evolutionary frameworks. It details distinguishing features of the Order Primates. Primate diversity is considered through various approaches: by studying adaptations in anatomy and behaviour between and within major primate groups and their relationship to ecological variables, biological classifications and reconstructed evolutionary relationships, and the record of primates evolution via the complimentary lenses of evolutionary biology, palaeontology and genetics. The place of humans within the order primates is an important topic. Primate ecology and conservation are overviewed.

Note: This course is to be offered every second year (even years), commencing in 2010.

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