Anthropology 562: Introduction to Evolutionary Anthropology Instructor: Ed Hagen Office: VMMC 102E Phone: 360-546-9257 Email: edhagen@vancouver.wsu.edu Office hours: Anytime Course website: Lecture day and time: F 13.10-15.40 Semester: Spring 2011 Course description http://anthro.vancouver.wsu.edu/course-folders/ anth-562-edward-h-hagen/ Anthropology 562 is an introductory survey of evolutionary anthropology. The theme of the course is that the evolutionary biological framework developed to understand non-human organisms can also be used to understand humans. Each student is required to make two presentations during the semester. One presentation will be long, covering all readings for that week, and the other will be short, covering 1/2 of all readings for that week. Presentations will be assigned at the start of the course. Each student is also required to write one term paper on a topic of their choosing (about 20 pages, plus references). The topic must be approved by the course instructor. Papers are due the last day of finals week. Course textbook (optional) This course assumes an undergraduate level understanding of biological anthropology. If you need an introduction or refresher, I recommend: Boyd and Silk. How Humans Evolved, latest edition. Required reading Week 1 (Jan 14): The problem of organism design (and its solution) Paley. Natural Theology (the problem). Darwin. Origin of species (the solution). 1
Week 2 (Jan 21): The human branch of the tree of life Kutschera and Niklas 2004. The modern theory of biological evolution -- an expanded synthesis. Cela-Conde and Ayala 2003. Genera of the human lineage. Wood and Collard 1999. The Changing Face of Genus Homo. Collard and Wood 2000. How reliable are human phylogenetic hypotheses? Tattersall 2000. Paleoanthropology -- The Last Half-Century. Foley 2001. In the Shadow of the Modern Synthesis -- Alternative Perspectives on the Last Fifty Years of Paleoanthropology White 2009. Ladders, bushes, punctuations, and clades: Hominid paleobiology in the late 20th century. Week 3 (Jan 28): The human niche Brantingham 1998. Hominid-carnivore coevolution and invasion of the predatory guild. O Connell et al 2002. Male strategies and Plio-Pliestocene archaeology. Stiner 2002. Carnivory coevolution and the geographic spread of Homo. Klein 2000. Archeology and the Evolution of Human Behavior. McBrearty and Brooks 2000. The revolution that wasn t -- a new interpretation of the origin of modern human behavior. Stringer 2002 Modern human origins -- progress and prospects. Week 4 (Feb 4): The gene s eye view Williams 1966. Adaptation and natural selection. Dawkins 1976. The selfish gene. (Any edition) Gould and Lewontin 1979. The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme. Week 5 (Feb 11): Evolutionary approaches to behavior Krebs and Davies. An Introduction to behavioural ecology, 3rd edition (chapters 1-2). Maynard Smith 1978. Optimization theory in evolution. Maynard Smith 1982. Evolution and the theory of games (chapters 1 and 2). Owens 2006. Where is behavioural ecology going? [Optional] McElreath and Boyd. Mathematical Models of Social Evolution: A guide for the perplexed (chapter 2). 2
Week 6 (Feb 18): Sociobiology Hamilton 1964. The genetical evolution of social behaviour, I & II. Trivers 1971. The evolution of reciprocal altruism. Trivers 1972. Parental investment and sexual selection. Trivers 1974. Parent-offspring conflict. Alexander 1974. The evolution of social behavior. Axelrod and Hamilton 1981. The evolution of cooperation. Week 7 (Feb 25): Primate socioecology Wrangham 1980. An ecological model of female-bonded primate groups. Sterck et al 1997. The evolution of female social relationships in nonhuman primates. Rodseth et al 1991. The human community as a primate society. Foley and Gamble 2009. The ecology of social transitions in human evolution. Week 8 (Mar 4): Human Behavioral Ecology Smith 1983. Anthropological applications of optimal foraging theory: A critical review. Winterhalder and Smith 2000. Analyzing adaptive strategies: human behavioral ecology at twenty-five. Chagnon 1988. Life histories, blood revenge, and warfare in a tribal population. Borgerhoff Mulder 1990. Kipsigis women s preferences for wealthy men: Evidence for female choice in mammals? Kitcher 1987. Précis of Vaulting ambition: Sociobiology and the quest for human nature. Grafen 1984. Natural selection, kin selection and group selection. Week 9 (Mar 11): Life history theory Stearns 1976 Life-history tactics: a review of the ideas. Hill and Kaplan 1999. Life history traits in humans: Theory and empirical studies. Kaplan et al 2000. A theory of human life history evolution: Diet, intelligence, and longevity. Hawkes et al. 1998. Grandmothering, menopause, and the evolution of human life histories 3
Week 11 (Mar 25): Evolutionary psychology Symons 1992. behavior. On the use and misuse of Darwinism in the study of human Tooby and Cosmides 1994. Origins of domain specificity: The evolution of functional organization. Tooby and Cosmides 1992. The psychological foundations of culture. Cosmides and Tooby 1992. Cognitive adaptations for social exchange. [Optional] Evans and Zarate 2000. Introducing Evolutionary Psychology. [Optional] Hirschfeld and Gelman 1994. Towards a topography of mind: An introduction to domain specificity. Week 12 (Apr 1): Evolved mating psychology Buss, DM (1989) Sex differences in human mate preferences: Evolutionary hypotheses tested in 37 cultures. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12:1-49. Eagly, A. H., & Wood, W. (1999). The origins of sex differences in human behavior: Evolved dispositions versus social roles. American Psychologist 54:408-423. Schmitt 2005. Sociosexuality from Argentina to Zimbabwe: A 48-nation study of sex, culture, and strategies of human mating. Malamuth et al. 2005. Sexual coercion. Week 13 (Apr 8): Evolution of human cooperation Henrich et al 2005. Economic Man in Cross-cultural Perspective: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-scale Societies. Fehr et al. 2002. Strong reciprocity, human cooperation, and the enforcement of social norms. Gurven 2005. To give and to give not: The behavioral ecology of human food transfers. Smith and Bird 2000. Turtle hunting and tombstone opening public generosity as costly signaling. Week 14 (Apr 15): Cultural evolution Henrich and McElreath 2003. The evolution of cultural evolution. Sperber 1994. The modularity of thought and the epidemiology of representations. Pagel 2009. Human language as a culturally transmitted replicator. Laland and Hoppitt 2003. Do animals have culture? 4
Week 15 (Apr 22): Human genetic evolution and diversity TBA. Week 16 (Apr 29): To be determined... 5