Explorations Lab and Activities Manual
The forthcoming Explorations Biological Anthropology Lab Manual will include approximately 2-4 labs/activities for each of the sixteen chapters and three appendices in Explorations.
Each lab/activity will be CC BY-NC licensed and include:
• Learning objectives
• List of required supplies
• Instructions for faculty
• Estimated duration
• Student worksheets
• Reference to the corresponding Explorations chapter
• Consistent format and style
The labs/activities can be individually printed by faculty for in-class use or packaged into course lab books for the term. For each chapter, we will provide at least one lab/activity that is easily adapted for distance learning courses.
We will continue to add more lab options as they become available throughout the Spring 2021 semester.
If you would like to contribute a CC BY-NC lab/activity that you have developed or that you have found useful, please email: explorationstextbook@gmail.com
Chapter 1: Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Chapter 2: Evolution
Chapter 4: Forces of Evolution
Chapter 5: Meet the Living Primates
Chapter 6: Primate Ecology and Behavior
Chapter 7: Understanding the Fossil Context
Chapter 8: Primate Evolution
Chapter 9: Early Hominins
Chapter 10: Early Members of the Genus Homo
Chapter 11: Archaic Homo
Chapter 12: Modern Homo sapiens
Chapter 13: Race and Human Variation
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Chapter 14: Human Adaptive Significance Approach
Chapter 15: Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology
Chapter 16: Contemporary Topics: Human Biology and Health
Appendix A: Osteology
Appendix B: Primate Conservation
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