Course Details

  • Online, Asynchronous
  • December 19, 2024 to January 10, 2025
  • 3 credits | $1,875
  • Last day to register: Friday, December 20, 2024

Course Overview

Basic concepts and theory of evolution will be reviewed and applied to the study of fossil evidence for the evolution of humans and their primate relatives. Students explore alternate interpretations of data and utilize course text as well as primary scientific peer-reviewed literature to understand the most recent phylogenetic research, our evolutionary biology, and the physiological requirements our bodies have from our origins and admixture with other hominin species. Lab assignments give students experience with the scientific method and skill building for careers across scientific disciplines.

Additional Information

Faculty will contact all students after the Friday, December 20, registration deadline.

About the Instructor

Alexandra D. Uhl

Instructor of Biology and Sociology
Alexandra Uhl is a biological anthropologist. As a member of Stonehill’s faculty, she manages The Uhl Lab, where she and students complete an interdisciplinary examination of research focused on biological anthropology, biological archaeology, historic archaeology, sexual dimorphism, skeletal morphology and health/wellness. Uhl’s research has been funded by The Leakey Foundation and focuses on sexual dimorphism and ontogeny. She utilizes medical imaging software to study skeletal material and fossil specimens. Her work has been published in PLOS ONE, AJPA and Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. Uhl is the excavation leader of an ongoing archaeological site in Rhode Island funded by the van Beuren Charitable Foundation. With 10 years of teaching experience across the fields of anthropology and biology, she has taught as a visiting professor at Boston University and Salve Regina University. She regularly teaches courses on osteological forensic techniques, primate ecology/evolution, human evolution, sexual dimorphism in humans, general anthropology, anatomy and physiology, North American Indian societies and archaeology. Uhl earned a doctoral degree in scientific archaeology from the Department of Paleoanthropology at the Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen in Germany.

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