NBB 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Medicine Man, Distributed Knowledge, Thesis Statement
14 Apr 2016
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Switching two class topics between next class"s and monday"s. Focus more on essay ii on wednesday"s class. Essay due: march 2nd (20 pts, double of last essay) Handout on essay instrucions posted: be sure to cite readings that you need to support argument! Post any inquiries on the forum on blackboard. Prompt: present and defend a hypothesis to explain how and why through the interconnected processes of populaion adaptaion and niche construcion biological evoluion modiied the hominin brain. Be sure to consider how our brains evolved via descent from the common ancestor we share with chimpanzees and bonobos. Hominin: all humans living today back unil the earliest common ancestor with chimps and bonobos. Part ii: ethological investigations into human foraging societies. Social networks regionally and social networks have become more resilient ex. Fossil and graphs display tooth loss at old age in neanderthal and homo sapien fossil. Evolved to have more successful survival into old age.
