This lab OER includes 17 chapters with activities organized into four units: Introduction to Biological Anthropology; Human Osteology; Primates; Human Evolution.
Category: ANTH 115
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 …
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Materials-based and virtual labs, as well as in-class activities, to accompany each Explorations chapter. Multi-authored labs/activities include:
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A collection of labs covering: bone identification; Hardy-Weinberg; primates; bone injuries; hominin cranium comparison. Recommended to be used with Biological Anthropology coursework. From the author: The instructor is expected to present the base material that students will need to complete each activity. This allows the instructor to mold the activities to their own approach. Students …
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