Online Courses Handbook 2003

12647 (v.2) Human Evolution 331

Area:	School of Biomedical Science
Contact Hours:	5.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Equivalent(s):	304592 (v.2) BIO35 Human Evolution or any previous version 303107 (v.2) Human Evolution 305 or any previous version
Modern theory of the gene, types of selection, the adaptationist model, selection pressures in human evolution. Neo-Darwinist versus Creationist and other theories of evolution. Human origins - the fossil record, climatic pulses, 'African Eve' versus other theories, the molecular 'clock', calibration frameworks, dating methods. The chimpanzee and hominid boundary. Plio-Pleistocene hominids and their relationships.