UCSP - BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION and CULTURAL EVOLUTION

Lessons

1. Lesson 6: Biological Evolution

2. Lesson Objectives: Trace the biological and cultural evolution of early to modern humans; Explore the significance of human material remains and artifactual evidence in interpreting cultural and social including political and economic processes. Recognize national, local, and specialized museums, and archeological and historical sites as venues to appreciate and reflect on the complexities of biocultural and social evolution as

3. Paleontology Fossils

4. How do we know how old something is?

5. Relative Dating

6. Stratigraphy

7. F-U-N trio

8. Absolute Dating Radiocarbon or Carbon 14 dating Potassium Argon Fission Track Method

9. Carbon 14 Dating

10. Potassium-Argon Method

11. Fission Track Method

12. Paleoanthropology interdisciplinary branch of anthropology concerned with the origins and development of early humans .

13. Geologic Time scale Paleozoic Era Mesozoic Era Cenozoic Era

14. Paleozoic Era

15. Mesozoic Era

16. Cenozoic Era

17. From Hominids to Australopithecines

18. Australopithecus Australopithecus Afarensis Australopithecus Africanus Australopithecus Robustus Australopithecus Boisei

19. Australopithecus Afarensis Lucy

20. Australopithecus Africanus Taung Child

21. Australopithecus Robustus

22. Australopithecus Boisei

23. Distinction between Hominids and their Predecessors Bipedalism – that is they walk using their two feet. Expansion of the brain – attributed to the change of activities like warfare, hunting and development of language. Reduction of the size of face, teeth and jaws - associated with the change in their diet and other factors.

24. Genographic Project Launched on 13 April 2005 by the  National Geographic Society  and  IBM , was a  genetic anthropological  study (sales discontinued on 31 May 2019) that aimed to map  historical human migrations  patterns by collecting and analyzing  DNA  samples.

25. Assessment