1. komponenta

Lecture type	Total
Lectures	30
Seminar	15

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

To recognize the basic principles and mechanisms of human biological evolution. To provide an overview of the subject of human evolution in modern science. To learn about the place and position of hominids on the evolutionary scale, placed in a time frame.

COURSE CONTENT
1. Lectures: Basic terms of biological evolution
Seminar: Literature introduction
2. Lectures: Mechanisms and factors in human evolution
Seminar: Scientists and discoverers of hominid fossils
3. Lectures: Evolution of primates
Seminar: Groups, genera and species
4. Lectures: Environment and tempo of hominization
Seminar: Great Rift Valley in Africa
5. Lectures: Genera Sahelanthropus and Orrorin
Seminar: Individual literature research
6. Lectures: Genus Ardipithecus
Seminar: The Leakey family
7.-8. Lectures: Genus Australopithecus
Seminar: Sterkfontein Cave in South Africa
9. Lectures: Genus Homo
Seminar: Ötzi - the Iceman
10. Lectures: Homo habilis, Homo erectus
Seminar: First tools and weapons
11. Lectures: Homo neanderthalensis
Seminar: Extinction of neanderthals
12. Lectures: Krapina neanderthals and Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger
Seminar: Croatian hominid fossiles sites
13. Lectures: Homo sapiens, Homo sapiens sapiens
Seminar: Inventions in human evolution
14. Lectures: Migrations in human evolution
Seminar: Migrations to Australia and America
15. Lectures: Prehistoric cultures
Seminar: Africa, the cradle of modern humankind

Possible visits: Institute for Quaternary Paleontology and Geology (HAZU), Archaeological museum

1. Facchini, F. 2007. Postanak čovjeka i kulturna evolucija, Kršćanska sadašnjost, Zagreb.
2. Lewin, R. 2005. Human Evolution - An Illustrated Introduction, Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
3. Johanson, D., Edgar B. 1996: From Lucy to Language. Nevraumont Publishong Company, New York, USA
4. Radovčić, J. 1988: Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger i krapinski pračovjek. Školska knjiga, Zagreb

Izborni kolegiji - Regular study - Molecular Biology