ANTH 76 The Evolution of Upright Walking

This is an advanced course designed to explore in-depth both the historical and current understandings of human bipedalism. This course is reading-intensive, with an average of 5 primary journal papers assigned per meeting. We will investigate hypotheses for why bipedalism evolved, the form of locomotion bipedalism evolved from, and the fossil evidence for early hominin bipedality in the ardipithecines and australopithecines.

Instructor

DeSilva

Degree Requirement Attributes

Dist:SCI

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Department-Specific Course Categories

BIOL

Offered

• Winter