1. komponenta

Lecture type	Total
Lectures	30
Practicum	15
Seminar	15

* Load is given in academic hour (1 academic hour = 45 minutes)

LEARNING OUTCOMES:
1. Understand theorethical concepts important for Biological Anthropology research
2. Critically evaluate and asses approaches and tools availabe for addressing questions in Biological Anthropology
3. Critically evaluate examples of Biological Anthropology research
4. Competent to implement the knowledge gained during this course

COURSE CONTENT

LECTURES
1. An Introduction to Biological Anthropology
2. Biological Anthropology and Evolution (What is Anthropology The Subfields of Anthropology, the Development of Anthropology and Evolutionary Theory)
3. Human Genetics
4. Population structure
5. Evolutionary Forces
6. Case studies of Gene Flow and Genetic Drift
7. Case studies of Natural Selection
8. Nonrandom mating (inbreeding, assortative mating, island populations)
9. Human Biological Variation (Measuring Human Variation-methods)
10. Perspectives on Geologic Time
11. Primate Origins and Evolution
12. The evolution of the Genus Homo
13. Anatomically Modern Homo Sapiens
14. Human Population Growth
15. Demographic Change

SEMINARS AND EXERCISES

The seminar essay topics (and exercises)/mostly same as the titles of the lectures/modified according the recent scientific articles and methods

1. 1. Relethford, J.: The Human Species - An Introduction to Biological Anthropology, Mayfield Publ. Comp., California, 1997.
   
   2. Rudan, P.: Populacijska biologija čovjeka (Uvod u antropologiju), fotokopije 12 dvosatnih predavanja, HAD - interno izdanje, Zagreb, 2004.
   
   3. Janković, I.: Australopitecini: prvi korak u evoluciji čovjeka. Priroda 923/924:12-15.
   
   4. Janković, I.: Homo: pojava našeg roda. Priroda 927:10-13.; Janković, I.:Neandertalci. Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu 21: 177-196.
2. The Metabolic Ghetto - An Evolutionary Perspective on Nutrition, Power Relations and Chronic Disease, Jonathan C. K. Wells, Cambridge University Press, 2016.
3. Anthropological Genetics - Theory, Methods and Applications, Crawford, M., Cambridge University Press, 2007.
4. 1. Stein, P. L. i Rowe, B. M.: Physical Anthropology (6th ed.). Mc. Graw-Hill. New York. 1996.;
   
   2. Hrvatska Enciklopedija 1 tom. (str 295.-196.: Antropologija). Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža, Zagreb, 1999.

Izborni kolegiji - Regular study - Biology