Fall 2008

Evolution and Culture

Listed in: Anthropology and Sociology, as ANTH-13

Faculty

Miriam R. Goheen [d] (Section 01)

Description

This course concentrates on the role of culture in evolutionary perspective, regarding it as the distinctive adaptive mode of humanity. Drawing on the materials of primatology, paleontology, archaeology, the prehistoric record as well as cultural studies, the primary emphasis will be on the relations among biological, psychological, social, and cultural factors in human evolution and human life. The focus is primarily on the role of culture in human evolution, and aspects of culture that make humans unique. Limited to 50 students. Fall semester. Professor Goheen.