Virtual Laboratories for Biological Anthropology version 5.0
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Copyright: 2020
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Virtual Laboratories for Biological Anthropology 5.0 uses interactive measuring and plotting exercises, video clips, 3-D animations, sound, and digital images, so students can actively participate in 12 labs as part of their biological anthropology course. The labs and assignments teach students how to formulate and test hypotheses with exercises that include how to measure, plot, interpret, and evaluate a variety of data drawn from osteological, behavioral, and fossil materials.
Virtual Laboratories 5.0 can function as the sole laboratory component in the course, or used to supplement traditional hands-on teaching by providing a wider range of materials than available in the typical college laboratory. The student can study and review the materials repeatedly.
- Each self-contained laboratory module contains a variety of sections or exercises, which provide students with a high level of interactivity. Each exercise builds on knowledge gained from working through a previous section until students are able to conduct the "virtual lab exercise"
- "Self-Quizzes" are included in each laboratory
- The labs and glossary include audio so students can hear exactly how to say each word
Lab 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE PRIMATES.
Lab 2: GENETICS AND EVOLUTION OF HUMAN POPULATIONS.
Lab 3: PRIMATE FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY.
Lab 5: PRIMATE DIETS AND FEEDING BEHAVIORS.
Lab 7: PRIMATE EVOLUTION.
Lab 8: EARLY HOMININ EVOLUTION.
Lab 9: THE EVOLUTION OF BIPEDALISM.
Lab 10: FOSSIL HOMININS OF THE GENUS HOMO.
Lab 11: THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD.
Lab 12: THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF MODERN HUMANS.
Dr. John Kappelman (Ph.D. Harvard University, 1987) is a professor at The University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Geological Sciences. He is interested in the evolutionary history of primates and especially hominoid and hominin origins and evolution. He currently directs ongoing field project in the latest Oligocene and Pleistocene of northwestern Ethiopia and participates in field projects in Kenya and Turkey. He is the principal investigator for a suite of web sites aggregated under www.eAnthro.org (www.eSkeletons.org, www.eFossils.org, www.eLucy.org, www.eForensics.info) that offer a wealth of comparative human and primate osteology, forensics, and paleoanthropology. His research interests include paleoecology, functional morphology, stratigraphy, paleomagnetism, and computer imaging.