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Mechanobiology of the primate skeleton. Material and structural
basis for the functional behavior of bone. Analytical approaches to
functional, allometric, and evolutionary adaptation.
ANG 6547: Human Adaptation (3) Prereq: ANT 2511 or consent
of instructor. An examination of adaptive processes (cultural,
physiological, genetic) in past and contemporary populations.
ANG 6552: Primate Behavior (3) Prereq: one course in either
physical anthropology or biology. Taxonomy, distribution, and
ecology of primates. Range of primate behavior for each major
taxonomic group explored.
ANG 6553: Primate Cognition(3) Evolution of cognition in primate
lineages. Behavioral, social, and phylogenetic influences on cognitive
processes. Theories of learning and imitation and their impact on
analysis of ecological and social decisions.
ANG 6555: Issues in Evolutionary Anthropology(3) Current
controversies in biological anthropology. Role of evolutionary theory
in addressing problems of taxonomy, speciation, systematics,
selection, development, and adaptation in primate and human
evolution.
ANG 6583: Primate Functional Morphology(3) Practical and
theoretical approaches to functional morphology in living and fossil
primates. Biomechanical techniques. Problems of functional
inference in paleontological and archeological records.
ANG 6589: Behavioral Decisions Among Human and
Nonhuman Primates(3) Survey and synthesis of literature of
human and animal behavioral ecology to address theoretical
problems in social and behavioral decision-making. Strategies for
data collections and analysis.
ANG 6737: Medical Anthropology (3) Prereq: consent of
instructor. Theory of anthropology as applied to nursing, medicine,
hospital organization, and the therapeutic environment. Instrument
design and techniques of material collection.
ANG 6740: Advanced Techniques in Forensic Anthropology(3)
Prereq: human osteology and forensic anthropology introduction.
Hands on analysis and clinical diagnoses of human skeletal remains.
Analysis of human trauma and other demographic techniques.
ANG 6741: Archaeology of Death(3) Archaeological literature on
mortuary data. History, cultural anthropology, and ethnography
offer insights into the origin of religion, the nature of society, and
the structure of ritual.
ANG 6750: Research Methods in Cognitive Anthropology(3)
Data collection including free lists, pile sorts, triad tests, paired
comparisons, rankings, and ratings. Consensus analysis, cluster
analysis, and multidimensional scaling.
ANG 6801: Ethnographic Field Methods (3) Methods of collecting
ethnographic data. Entry into the field; role and image conflict.
Participant observation, interviewing, content analysis, photography
and documents, data retrieval, analysis of data.
ANG 6823: Laboratory Training in Archeology (3) Prereq: an
introductory level archeology course. Processing of data recovered in
field excavations; cleaning, identification, cataloging, classification,