Date, Topic and Reading

Tuesday, Aug 29
How Do We See "Prehistoric" People?
Video

READING: Carefully read this entire syllabus.

Wednesday, Aug 30
DISCUSSION: What Are Our Views on Evolution?

READING:
"Discovery of Early Hominids";
Genesis, Chapters 1 and 2, in Course Reader, pp. 57-59.

Thursday, Aug 31 What is History -- And Does Biology Have Anything to do with It?

READING: Carl Sagan, The Universe in a Year (handout).

Click to read a National Geographic article on 2004 discovery of species of Hobbit-like Humans that lived 18,000 years ago in what is now Indonesia

Click to read an August 23, 2005 New York Times article, "Grasping the Depth of Time as a First Step in Understanding Evolution"

Click to read an August 23, 2005 New York Times article, "Scientists Speak Up on Mix of God and Science"

Tuesday, Sep 5 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.

Click to read about a new study comparing human and chimpanzee genomes, New York Times September 1, 2005.

Wednesday, Sep 6 Discussion

Thursday, Sep 7 Can We Learn About Humans from Apes?

Audio

READING: McNeill, pp. xiii-6.