Date, Topic and Reading
Wednesday, Aug 28
How Do We See "Prehistoric" People?
Video
READING: Carefully read this entire syllabus.
Thursday, Aug 29 What is History -- And Does Biology Have Anything
to do with It?
READING: Reilly, Worlds of History, pp. ix-15.
Two recent articles from the New York Times:
"Fossil ... Pushes Back Human Origins," July 11, 2002
"Skulls ... Challenge Theories of Human Origins," August 6, 2002
Tuesday, Sep 3 Does Evolution Cause the Sexes to
Behave Differently?
Audio
FILM (to be shown in class):
Gender: The Enduring Paradox.
READING: Excerpt from Robert Wright, The
Moral Animal,
in Course Reader, pp. 1-16.
Wednesday, Sep 4 Discussion
Thursday, Sep 5 Can We Learn About Humans from Apes?
READING: McNeill, pp. xiii-6.
Audio
Audio