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Monthly Archives: September 2013
The minimum evidence necessary to demonstrate evolution
Each week in Wellesley 207x I will be providing my students with a “thought question for the weekend” related to that week’s course content. Students are invited to provide their responses on the discussion forums. These responses are not graded, … Continue reading
Posted in Evolution, Teaching
Tagged 207x, evolution, thought question for the weekend
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A worldwide audience
I promise to not write solely about my EdX course, but…it is live as of this morning. And in the first three hours of being live, we have had students posting in the discussion forum from every continent outside of … Continue reading
Set to go live, Wellesley 207x and questions of scale…
In two days, Wellesley 207x – Introduction to Human Evolution, will go live. The course is the culmination of a fairly frenzied amount of work over the past three months, and I am excited to see that work actually reach … Continue reading
Laetoli, Boston-style
How do you film a class segment about the Laetoli footprint trail without going to Tanzania to film? By going to the beach, of course! Laetoli, if you are not aware, is the ~3.5-3.6 million year old site in Tanzania, … Continue reading
Posted in Fossils
Tagged 207x, afarensis, Australopithecus, footprints, Laetoli
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The importance of 300,000 year old cave bear mtDNA
A just released paper in PNAS that reconstructs the mitochondrial DNA of a >300,000 year old cave bear lineage is getting some attention…and for good reason (Dabney, et al., 2013). You might wonder who cares about ancient cave bear lineages … Continue reading
Posted in Fossils, Genetics
Tagged aDNA, Ancient DNA, Atapuerca, cave bear, Denisova, Neandertal, sima de los huesos
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Six degrees of Earnest Hooton
In my “Race and Human Variation” (Anth 214) I try to use race as a guide to teach some of the history of physical anthropology. One of the lessons I present, using myself as the example, is “six degrees of … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology
Tagged academic phylogeny, biological anthropology, Earnest Hooton, history, physical anthropology
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Forensic osteology resource
The good people at forensicosteology.org have put together a large number of resources related to the field. I see today that they have a wonderful metabase of searchable osteology trauma specimens, including catalog/institution reference information as well as photographic (and … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Teaching
Tagged data access, forensic anthropology, human osteology, online resources, osteology, trauma
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Creating scientific knowledge within an evolutionary framework
In my class today, we are talking about how you create knowledge regarding human evolution. We will discuss, in brief, how we know what we know about the world around us. In that context, we will talk about how scientific … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Evolution, Teaching
Tagged 207x, anthropology as science, epistemology, four-field anthropology, science, WCAnth207
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Paleoanthropology pic(s) of the day
I have not posted a paleoanthropology pic of the day recently, so in honor of a forthcoming JHE paper on a new partial temporal bone from the site of Kromdraai, South Africa (Braga, et al.), here are a few pics … Continue reading
Posted in Fossils
Tagged kromdraai, photo, Photography, robust Australopithecines, South Africa
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The academic phylogeny of physical anthropology
UPDATE: As a brief update, Andrew is working in equal partnership with Liza Shapiro (Prof. of Anthropology, Univ. of Texas-Austin) and Brett Nachman (Graduate student at UT-Austin) on this project. The project is also going to continue to get updates … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Evolution
Tagged academic phylogeny, Graduate school, physical anthropology
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