STUDY GUIDE

STUDY GUIDE: This was created interactively by Aaron & review session (I got there late). Some entries are a bit telegraphic; this is meant to highlight topics to look at rather than elaborate on them.

Syllabus

Lectures

	Lect 1	Lect 2	Lect 3	Lect 4	Lect 5	Lect 6
7 MLK Holiday	Lect 8	Lect 9	10 Midterm	Lect 11	Lect 12	Lect 13
Lect 14	Lect 15	Lect 16	Lect 17	Lect. 18: Discussion	Lect. 19: Holiday	Lect. 20
Lect 21	Lect 22	Lect 23	Lect 24	Lect 25	Lect 26	Lect 27
Lect 28	Lect 29	Lect 30

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Readings

Assigned:

Lect 2

Hrdlicka (1918)
Lewis (1998)

Lect 3

Platt 1964

Lect 4

Wiens (2002)
Handout on dating methods
Nature "Gems of evolution"

Lect 5

Weston (1998)

Lect 6

Lect 7

MLK DAY

Lect 8

Lect 9

Lect 10

Midterm #1

Lect 11

Allometry handout Assigned
Nerves & hormones handout Optional (if you need to ground the hormone stuff better.)

Lect 12

Lect 13

Lect 14

Lect 15

Lect 16

Lee-Thorp & Sponheimer

Lect 17

AAPA Statement on Biological Aspects of Race
Understandingrace.org (not assigned)

Lect 18

Lect 19

Presidents Day (?midterm)

Lect 20

Hrdy (2005)

Lect 21

Wrangham/Peterson
Sussman

Lect 22

Lect 23

Chisholm & Burbank (2001)

Lect 24

Dar-Nimrod & Heines (2006)
The science of gender and science (debate between Steven Pinker and Elizabeth Spelke)

Lect 25

Hrdy (1997)

Lect 26

Lect 27

Daly & Wilson (1999)

Lect 28

Insel & Young (2001)
Young, neuroscience of human love (2009) Addition - JUST published

Lect 29

Lect 30

Only if you're interested:

Why do we behave in the way that we do? This series of Essays reveals how the latest research is altering our understanding of what it is to be human. Whether in relation to religion or to our collective behaviour in cities, experts explore the potential impact on society, now and in the future, of discoveries in psychology, anthropology, genetics, neuroscience, game theory and network engineering.

Martin Daly and Margo Wilson have written extensively on evolutionary psychology, especially as it relates to violence. For a list of their publications, click here.

The 12 January 2006 issue of Nature has a review of a recent book that examines the relationship among free will, neurobiology, epigenesis, and the law. The review is only a page long and gives you the idea... pdf here.

Steve Pinker has written eloquently (and perhaps correctly) on the role of natural selection shaping "brain modules" such as the "language organ" that Noam Chomsky advocates. In this New York Times Magazine article he talks about our instinctive morality. I'm not at all sure I buy it, but it is interesting & state of the art in an important modern debate.... Pinker 2008 pdf (3mb)