Date, Topic and Reading

Tuesday, Aug 26
How Do We See "Prehistoric" People?
Video

READING: Carefully read this entire syllabus.

Wednesday, Aug 27
DISCUSSION: What Are Our Views on Evolution?

READING: 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.

Thursday, Aug 28 What is History -- And Does Biology Have Anything to do with It?

READING: Reilly, Worlds of History, pp. ix-15.

Tuesday, Sep 2 Does Evolution Cause the Sexes to Behave Differently?
Audio

FILM (to be shown in class):

Gender: The Enduring Paradox.

Audio

READING: Excerpt from Robert Wright, The
Moral Animal, in Course Reader, pp. 1-16.

Wednesday, Sep 3 Discussion

Thursday, Sep 4 Can We Learn About Humans from Apes?

Audio

READING: McNeill, pp. xiii-6.