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ANTH 2112

Human Evolution

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Winter 2026

Topics

  • The field of paleoanthropology is examined in this course. Students are
  • introduced to comparative primate biology, including behaviour, as a background
  • to examining the fossil evidence for human evolution
  • Understand the basic evolutionary patterns and processes that have
  • shaped primate diversification
  • Learn how humans fit into the natural world through their biological
  • relationships with other living and extinct primates
  • Understand how the fossil record informs the science of human origins
  • Achieve a broader and more informed outlook on what it means to be
  • human
  • Complete regularly assigned tasks to increase study habits and job
  • performance skills
  • Gain experience participating in an online, professional setting by asking
  • class discussions related to the course subject matter
  • Requiring recording of a session with a student is permissible only when
  • the recording itself is part of the learning activity and outcome and when students
  • Find Lakehead University’s free writing support
  • appointment

Readings

  • Required: Larsen CS (2021) Essentials of Biological Anthropology. 5th or 6th Edition. WW Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-1-324-10232-8. Any version of this book should be fine (e.g., ebook, paperback, looseleaf). Cost will range between ~ and depending on the condition (new vs used) and version purchased.
  • Required: Whitehead P, Sacco WK and Hochgraf SB (2005) A Photographic Atlas for Physical Anthropology: Brief edition. Morton Publishing Company, Englewood, CO. ISBN 0895826682. Cost will range between ~ and depending on the condition (new vs used). See the course D2L site (look in MyCourseLinks on the LU website) for additional resources each week.
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