ANTH 205 - Physical Anthropology

3 Credit(s)

The course will examine physical anthropology as a sub discipline of anthropology. The goal is to understand how the physical realities of being human affects the nature of culture. The central theme will be the evolution of humans from the earliest hominid forms to modern Homo sapiens. The course will focus on the mechanisms of evolution, an understanding of primate behavior in general, and the fossil evidence for hominid development.