In this course, students explore how new discoveries in human origins research influence our current understandings of hominin evolution over the past 7 million years. In this lab-based course, students develop their practical skills in identifying, describing, and interpreting primate skeletal and dental anatomy as a foundation for understanding the hominin fossil record. Next, students evaluate and interpret new research on the biology, diversity, dispersals, and evolutionary relationships of fossil hominins. We examine how new research is progressing the field of paleoanthropology and attempting to clarify the origins of modern human biology and behaviour.

Science credit