This course is directed at non-majors (with no anthropology prerequisite) and will introduce students to the science of biological anthropology. Students will critically examine the ways in which biology, the environment, society, and culture come together to form the human condition. Guided by evolutionary theory and the scientific method, we will explore the evolutionary history of modern Homo sapiens from early primate origins to our recent hominin ancestors. We will explore the role that evolutionary forces had in shaping the variation that exists in modern humans today; and we will problematize "race" as a way of categorizing that variation.

This course is directed at non-majors (with no anthropology prerequisite) and will introduce students to the science of biological anthropology. Students will critically examine the ways in which biology, the environment, society, and culture come together to form the human condition. Guided by evolutionary theory and the scientific method, we will explore the evolutionary history of modern Homo sapiens from early primate origins to our recent hominin ancestors. We will explore the role that evolutionary forces had in shaping the variation that exists in modern humans today; and we will problematize "race" as a way of categorizing that variation.