Human Evolution

Pre-requisites: To have passed the course Physical Anthropology during the basic studies

Course objectives: For students to understand which ecological factors played the key role in the human evolution.

Course description: Introduction to Evolutional Ecology, which studies the effect of the environmental factors on evolution. An account of how hominids developed within the environment that they lived in, also with what kind of ecological problems they had to contend with and with which adaptation strategy they did they solve them.

Learning Outcomes: Essay and oral examination

Literature/Reading:

• Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution. 1992. eds. S. Jones, R. Martin and D. Pilbeam, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Mikić, Ž. 2000. Evoluciona ekologija - osvrt na dosadašnje rezultate, Glasnik Antropološkog društva Jugoslavije 35: 21 - 31.
• Mikić, Ž. 2001. Osvrt na dosadašnje razultate istraživanja uticaja ekoloških činilaca na evoluciju hominida, Glasnik Srpskog arheološkog društva 17: 235 - 247.