Anthro 6200 October 16, 2019 Thu 12:30–2:00PM GC 2725 Prof. Alan Rogers

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Prosem II: History of Biological Anthropology

Description A brief introduction to the history of biological anthropology.

Course work Each week covers a different period in the history of anthropology. You will read several articles (available online) and discuss them in class. There will be no test or written work. Grades will be based on class discussion. The discussion of each article will be led by a student chosen at random (by computer).

Date Lecture Reading Oct 17 H Introduction 24 H Evolution pre-1920 Jenkin, 1867, Pearl, 1909 31 H Physical anthro pre-1920 MacCurdy, 1913; Boas, 1911, pp. 5–9; Sparks and Jantz, 2003 Nov 07 H Evolution 1920–1945 Provine, 1971, pp 140–178; Watson et al., 1936, pp 43–45,58–62,67–72 14 H Physical anthro 1920–1945 Dart, 1925, Hooton, 1935, 1932 21 H Modern synthesis Washburn, 1950; Boyd, 1950, Ch 1; Le Gros Clark, 1950a,b 28 H *** NO CLASS Dec 05 H Race Rogers, 2019; Livingstone, 1962; Dobzhansky et al., 1963; Washburn, 1963; Lewontin, 1972

References

Franz Boas. Changes in Bodily Form of Descendants of Immigrants. US Government Printing Office, Washington, 1911.

William C. Boyd. Genetics and the Races of Man: An Introduction to Modern Physical Anthropology. Little, Brown, Boston, 1950.

Raymond A. Dart. Australopithecus africanus: the man-ape of South Africa. Nature, 115(2884):195–199, 1925.

Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ashley Montagu, and Carleton S. Coon. Commentary on coon’s Origin of Races. Current Anthropology, 4(4):360–367, 1963.

Earnest A. Hooton. Preliminary remarks on the anthropology of the American criminal. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 71(6):349–355, 1932.

Earnest A. Hooton. Homo sapiens—whence and whither. Science, 82(2115):19–31, 1935.

Fleeming Jenkin. The origin of species. North British Review, 46:277–318, 1867.

1 Wilfred E. Le Gros Clark. South african fossil hominoids. Nature, 165(4205):893–894, 1950a.

Wilfred E. Le Gros Clark. South african fossil hominoids. Nature, 166(4227):791–792, 1950b.

Richard C. Lewontin. The apportionment of human diversity. In M. K. Hecht, editor, Evolutionary Biology, volume 6, pages 381–398. Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York, 1972.

Frank B. Livingstone. On the non-existence of human races. Current Anthropology, 3(3):279–281, 1962.

George Grant MacCurdy. Ancestor hunting: The significance of the Piltdown skull. American Anthropolo- gist, 15(2):248–256, 1913.

Raymond Pearl. Is there a cumulative effect of selection? Zeitschrift fur¨ Induktive Abstammungs- und Vererbungslehre, 2(1):257–275, 1909.

William B. Provine. The Origins of Theoretical Population Genetics. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1971.

Alan R Rogers. Carlton Coon (1904–1984). http://content.csbs.utah.edu/˜rogers/ biohist/readings/coon.pdf, 2019.

Corey S Sparks and Richard L Jantz. Changing times, changing faces: Franz Boas’s immigrant study in modern perspective. American Anthropologist, 105(2):333–337, 2003.

Sherwood L. Washburn. The new physical anthropology. Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, 13 (2nd series):298–304, 1950.

Sherwood L. Washburn. The study of race. American Anthropologist, 65(3):521–531, 1963.

D. M. S. Watson, N. W. Timofeeff-Ressovsky, E. J. Salisbury, W. B. Turrill, T. J. Jenkin, R. Ruggles Gates, R. A. Fisher, C. Diver, G. D. Hale Carpenter, J. B. S. Haldane, and E. W. MacBride R. N. Salaman. A discussion on the present state of the theory of natural selection. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 121(820):43–73, 1936.

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