Palaeoanthropology 2800-AFANTH

Syllabus:
1. Course description, palaeoanthropology: definitions and methods
- also: students choose paper topics according to the provided list or their own interest and preference
2. Evolution: definitions, applications, examples
3. Timetable, climate and changes
4. Primates: in the past and now
5. First human like creatures: Sahelanthropus and others
6. Australopithecs
7. First humans: H. habilis and H. rudolphensis
8. Real human: H. ergaster/erectus
9. Towards the modern human: H. antecessor, H. heidelbergensis
10. Brothers or cousins: Neanderthals
11. Just like ourselves: H. sapiens
12. Papers Session – student presentations