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School of Archaeology and Anthropology · ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
This course takes an evolutionary approach to understanding human origins and behaviour. The course covers: (a) the study of living non-human primates in the context of human evolution and behaviour; (b) how the fossil record of human relatives over the last 6-7 million years can be used to reconstruct the evolution of human behaviour; and (c) understanding the variation in human skeletal biology and human behaviour using evolutionary principles.
Two Critical Analysis and Reflection assignments: 1500 words each (25% each for a total of 50%)
Learning outcomes 2, 3, 4, 5
Two online tests (15% each for a total of 30%)
Learning outcomes 1, 2
Tutorial worksheets (5% each for a total of 20%)
Learning outcomes 1, 4, 5
130 hours of total student learning time made up from: a) 36 hours of contact over 12 weeks: 24 hours of lectures and 12 hours of tutorials and tutorial-like activities; and b) 94 hours of independent student research, reading, and writing.
Explorations: An Open Invitation for Biological Anthropology. (2023). Editors: Beth Shook, Katie Nelson, Kelsie Aguilera and Lara Braff, American Anthropological Association, Arlington, VA, Second Edition. ISBN – 978-1-931303-82-8. Open Access.