Human Origins

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Prerequisite: BIO 112 or BIO 111 This course will cover the biological and cultural changes in the human evolutionary lineage. The study of humans will be addressed from the evolutionary theory-considering nonhuman primates as models and interpreting the Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene and Holocene fossil record, in addition to the archeological remains associated with some of the species of these geological epochs. Emphasis will be placed on the Australopithecus and Homo genus.