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About Human Biology, Behavior and Evolution
This guide provides selected course-specific resources for AN102: Human Biology, Behavior and Evolution , taught by Professor Carolyn Hodges-Simeon, and MET AN102, taught by Mentor Mustafa.
Featured Resource: Evidence for Human Evolution, The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program
- Evidence for Human Evolution, The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program Dr. Rick Potts provides a video short introduction to some of the evidence for human evolution, in the form of fossils and artifacts.
Featured Article
- Understanding racism in physical (biological) anthropology (AJPA, Wiley) The mainstream of American physical anthropology began as racist and eugenical science that defended slavery, restricted “non‐Nordic” immigration, and justified Jim Crow segregation. After World War II, the field became more anti‐racial than anti‐racist. It has continued as a study of natural influences on human variation and thus continues to evade the social histories of inequitable biological variation. Also reflecting its occupancy of white space, biological anthropology
Featured Sapiens Articles
- How Human Are We? (Sapiens Magazine) An evolutionary theorist considers how traits we think of as human may have been shared by other hominins.
- The Humans We Haven't Met Yet (Sapiens Magazine) One anthropologist contends that far too many species have been lumped into one category: Our story is more complicated, he argues.
