This lab course is designed to give the students exposure to a range of biological anthropology topics including genetics and evolutionary theory, skeletal biology and forensic anthropology, primatology, and paleoanthropology. The course contains ten labs, each of which guides students througha pre-reflection, followed by a lecture and reading, a hands-on laboratory activity, and then a post-reflection. The sequence of labs moves fromfoundational methods (Labs 1–3) through living and fossil evidence (Labs 4–8), into molecular approaches (Lab 9) and synthesis of Homo evolution (Lab 10), culminating in a student-designed poster on modern human adaptation.
