Course format will be lecture+discussion. There are no exams. Course grade will be based on 4 projects requiring analysis and interpretation of data, and a term paper project. Projects are as follows: (1) allele frequency and Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium; (2) Kinship analysis; (3) Simulation of evolutionary processes; (4) quantitative population structure. They will be explained in detail as they come up. The term paper should be a research project of your own choosing, but the topic should be discussed with me in advance. It must be word processed and documented in the style of a standard anthropological journal, (e.g. AJPA). It can be an analysis of data from data bases or data you have obtained in some other way, or it can be a consideration of the literature of some topic. You can submit it as either hard copy or as an attached file. The final exam period will be devoted to oral presentation of your paper project. It is due Dec. 8.

1. Alfred (allele frequency data base)- http://alfred.med.yale.edu/alfred/index.asp

2. Boas-15,000 Native Americans, not yet on line, available from RLJ.

3. Howells- Craniometrics of recent world human populations- http://konig.la.utk.edu

4. Dermatoglyphics-Ridge-counts and pattern types of recent world human populations. Not yet on line, available from RLJ

5. Forensic Anthropology Data Base. Osteometrics of modern Americans. Not yet on line, available from RLJ.

All readings are available on the library ejournals link.

The book is available at:  http://konigs.la.utk.edu/humvar/

Agarwala et. al. 2001. Toward a complete North American Anabaptist geneology II.: Analysis of inbreeding. Hum Biol 73:533-545.

Ball HL, Hill CM 1996. Are multi foetus conceptions adaptive? A test of the ''insurance‑ova'' hypothesis.   Am J Hum Biol 8:102‑102.

Brown, R, Armelagos G. 2001. Apportionment of racial diversity: A review. Evolutionary Anthropology, 10:34-40.

Eller E. 1999. Population substructure and isolation by distance in three continental regions. Am J Phys Anthropol 108:147-159.

Katzmarzyk PT, Leonard WR. 1998. Climatic influences on human body size and proportions: ecological adaptations and secular trends. Am J Phys Anthropol 106:483-503.

Komlos J. 1987. The height and weight of West Point Cadets: Dietary change in antebellum America. J Econ Hist 47:897-927.

Leonard WR, Robertson ML. 1994. Evolutionary perspectives on human-nutrition the influence of brain and body-size on diet and metabolism. Am J Hum Biol 6:77-88.

Lieberman DE, Pearson OM, Mowbray KM. 2000. Basicranial influence on overall cranial shape. J Hum Evol 38:291-315.

Parra, EJ et al. 2001. Ancestral proportions and admixture dynamics in geographically defined African Americans living in South Carolina. Am J Phys Anthropol 114:18-29.

Relethford JH, Crawford MH. 1995. Anthropometric variation and the population history of Ireland. Am J Phys Anthropol 96:25-38.

Sokal RR, Oden NL, Thomson BA. 1992. Origins of the Indo-Europeans: genetic evidence. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 89:7669-7673.

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