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Syllabus

Lectures

	Lecture 1	Lecture 2	Lecture 3	Lecture 4	Lecture 5	Lecture 6
Lecture 7	Lecture 8	Lecture 9	Lecture 10	Lecture 11	Lecture 12	Lecture 13
[14=holiday]	Lecture 15	16: Film, mainly bushmeat, gorillas, war and our future	Lecture 17	Lecture 18	Lecture 19	Lecture 20

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Optional readings

Important paper on one way to know stuff

Platt 1964

Fossil record

Dating methods (Wiens 2002)
More dating methods

Comparative method

Allometry handout

Mechanisms underlying behavior (grossly oversimplified)

Nerves & hormones handout

Human variation

AAPA Statement on Biological Aspects of Race
Cartmill 1998
Understandingrace.org

Evolutionary biology and social equity

Chisholm & Burbank (2001)

Sex & gender & biology

The science of gender and science (debate between Steven Pinker and Elizabeth Spelke)