NAPA VALLEY COLLEGE
Anthropology 120: Biological Anthropology with Laboratory
Instructor: Ilana Johnson, Ph.D.
Lecture Notes
UNIT 1
Week 2 (Tues 1/24, Thurs 1/26), Week 3 (Tues 1/31 , Thurs 2/2)
Week 4 (Tues 2/7, Thurs 2/9), Week 5 (Tues 2/14)
QUIZ #1 Thurs 2/16
UNIT 2
Week 5 (Thurs 2/16), Week 6 (Tues 2/21, Thurs 2/23),
Week 7 (Tues 2/28, Thurs 3/1), Week 8 (Tues 3/6, Thurs 3/8), Week 9 (Tues: Film)
MIDTERM Thurs 3/15
UNIT 3
Week 10 (Tues 3/20, Thurs 3/22), Week 11 (Tues: Film, Thurs 4/5)
Week 12 (Tues: Film, Thurs 4/12)
QUIZ #2 Tues 4/17
UNIT 4
Week 13 (Tues 4/17, Thurs 4/19), Week 14 (Tues 4/24, Thurs 4/26 ),
Week 15 (Tues 5/1, Thurs 5/3), Week 16 (Tues 5/8, Thurs 5/10)
Week 17 (Tues: Film, Thurs: FINAL EXAM)
Handouts
Film Viewing Guides
Films are available for viewing in the McCarthy Library. You may sign out the video for 2 hours and watch in the library only. Bring your own headphones. You may not take a video home or keep it overnight.
Jane Goodall's Return to Gombe
Extra Credit
Extra Credit #2 - Evolution Essay
Online Study Tools
Meiosis, Mitosis, and Conception
Biological Anthropology in the News!
How Butterflies Got Their Spots
Ancient Hominids Took to the Seas
Human Genetics and Infectious Diseases
Viruses Helped Shape Human Genetic Variability
An Asteroid wiped out the Dinosaurs
Early Engravings on Ostrich Shells
Hand-axes Unearthen in Kenya are Oldest Advanced Tools Ever Found
Penn Team Uncovers Skeleton of "World's Oldest Child"
Neandertal DNA results summary (TIME Magazine)
Neandertal DNA results (Science Magazine)
Peer Pressure? Its Harwired into our Brains, Study Finds
Online Videos
So Human, So Chimp (PBS video)
Ape to Man (History Channel video)
Frans de Waal on the Colbert Report
Primate Videos on www.arkive.org
Discovery Series "Life" Primates Episode
Student Resources
NVC Anthropology Study Abroad Program
Articles
Diamond 1997 - Curse and Blessing in the Ghetto
Mukhopadhyay and Henze 2003 - How Real is Race?
de Waal 2008 - Another Chimp Bites the Dust
Dunbar 2009 - Primates on Facebook
Shreeve 2009 - Oldest Skeleton of Human Ancestor Found
Alper 2003 - Rethinking Neandertals
Wong 2005 - The Littlest Human
Armelagos 1998 - The Viral Superhighway
Dateline NBC - Confessions of a Sperm Donor
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