User:Ed Hagen/Anth 562

Anthropology 562: Evolutionary Method and Theory in Anthropology and Archaeology

 * Instructor: Ed Hagen
 * Department of Anthropology, Washington State University
 * Spring 2015

Syllabus
Anthropology 562 is a graduate-level 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. Presentations will be assigned at the start of the course.

Each student is also required to write one wikipedia article on a topic of their choosing. The topic must be approved by the course instructor.

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) --


 * Lecture

Week 2 (Jan 21): The human branch of the tree of life (Pliocene hominins) -


 * Harrision 2010. Apes Among the Tangled Branches of Human Origins.
 * Begun 2010. Miocene hominids and the origins of the African apes and humans.
 * Potts 2013. Hominin evolution in settings of strong environmental variability.
 * Wood and Harrison 2011. The evolutionary context of the first hominins.

Week 3 (Jan 28): The human niche (Pleistocene hominins) ---


 * Anton et al. 2014. Evolution of early Homo: An integrated biological perspective
 * Pontzer 2012. Ecological Energetics in Early Homo.
 * Smith et al. 2012. Evolution of Cooperation among Mammalian Carnivores and Its Relevance to Hominin Evolution.
 * Isler and van Schaik 2012. How Our Ancestors Broke through the Gray Ceiling: Comparative Evidence for Cooperative Breeding in Early Homo.


 * Check out the special issue of CA: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666726

Week 15 (Apr 29): Human genetic evolution and diversity ---


 * Henn et al. 2012. The great human expansion.
 * Barbujani and Colonna 2010. Human genome diversity: frequently asked questions.
 * Veeramah and Hammer 2014. The impact of whole-genome sequencing on the reconstruction of human population history.
 * Ermini et al. 2014. Major transitions in human evolution revisited: A tribute to ancient DNA.

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).

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 18): 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

Week 11 (Mar 25): Evolutionary psychology -


 * Symons 1992. On the use and misuse of Darwinism in the study of human behavior.
 * 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: Evolutionary medicine --


 * Wakefield 1992 The concept of mental disorder: On the boundary between biological facts and social values.


 * Sheldon, B. C., & Verhulst, S. (1996). Ecological immunology: costly parasite defences and trade-offs in evolutionary ecology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 11(8), 317–321.
 * Schulenburg, H., Kurtz, J., Moret, Y., & Siva-Jothy, M. T. (2009). Introduction. Ecological immunology. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 364(1513), 3 -14.
 * McDade, T. W. (2003). Life history theory and the immune system: steps toward a human ecological immunology. American journal of physical anthropology, 122(S37), 100–125.


 * Yazdanbakhsh et al 2002 Allergy Parasites and the Hygiene Hypothesis.pdf
 * Garn and Renz 2007 Epidemiological and immunological evidence for the hygiene hypothesis.pdf
 * Okada et al 2010 The hygiene hypothesis for autoimmune and allergic diseases -- an update.pdf


 * Hagen et al 2013. The neurotoxin regulation hypothesis.
 * Hagen 1999. The functions of postpartum depression.

Week 12 (Apr 8): 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 15): 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 22): 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?

Wikipedia articles written for this course
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jessica_R._Collins/sandbox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Valdanderthal/sandbox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Caitlynn.carr/sandbox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jordan_Prokosch/sandbox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GalenMillerAtkins/sandbox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Brandon_McIntosh/sandbox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Chinchliff/sandbox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Valdanderthal/sandbox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Anna_Jordan/sandbox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Loribphill/sandbox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_human_altruism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Adam_J._Sackman/sandbox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wolayte/sandbox