Monkeys, Apes and Humans

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Thie course takes a hypothetico-deductive approach to the study of primate evolution, biology, and behavior. It discusses the role of hypothesis testing in biology and anthropology and the mechanisms that scientists use to understand the natural world. Specifically, this course addresses the anatomy, origin and diversity of primates, includin humans, through time an daround the globe. It emphasizes the importance of molecular anthropology as well as primate and early human anatomy in order to understand modern human variation. (Cross-listed as BIOL-130.)