Anthropology major and Minor notes for 2nd semester NEP 2024-2025 for kashmir students

ANTHROPOLOGY (BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY)

CREDITS: THEORY: 04,

Unit 1: Genetic Basis of Human Variation

> Mendelian Principles.

> Population Genetics: Hardy Weinberg's Equilibrium

> Racial Classification; Morphological basis of Racial Classification

> Polymorphism: Blood Groups and Skill Cell Anaemia

Unit 2: Primates

> Taxonomic Classification

> Primates: Characteristic Features

> Primate Behaviour: Habitat, Diet and Social Behaviour

> Miocene fossils

Unit 3: Hominid Evolution

> Definitive Hominid features; Theories of Bipedalism and Brain Expansion

> Fossil Hominids: Australopithecus

> Homo Erectus; Habitat, Ecology and Distribution

> Habitat Ecology and Distribution of Homo NeanderthUnit

4: Homo sapiens

> Human Skelton Anatomy

> Anatomical Comparison with apes

> Concept of Human Growth & Development

> Adaptations to Heat, Cold and Altitude.

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