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Biological anthropology, also known as physical anthropology, is a scientific discipline concerned with the biological and behavioral aspects of human beings, their related non-human primates and their extinct hominin ancestors. It is a subfield of anthropology that provides a biological perspective to the systematic study of human beings.
I: Evolutionary Theory
In this unit students will learn about basic genetics, modern evolutionary theory, modern human variation, and the history of evolutionary thought.II: Non-Human Primates
In the second unit, students will examine skeletal anatomy, taxonomy, modern non‐human primates, primate socioecology, and primate evolution.III: Human Evolution
In the last unit, students investigate the origins of bipedalism, encephalization of the brain, and the evolution of hominins.