Day 1

5/4-
5/5

Quest on Evolution.

•Student research: how do scientists describe, measure and compare cranial casts? How do fossils provide clues to patterns in evolutionary history?

•Complete any research not completed in class and

•Read text p. 833 - 839 to help you complete written responses to questions.

Day 2

5/6,
5/7

•Share responses to research questions

•Begin measurements on primate skulls

•Read all 10 pages of the article: Last of the Neanderthals National Geographic

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/10/neanderthals/hall-text

Create an 8 x 11 "poster" highlighting all of the main ideas that you gained from this reading. Make your poster colorful, informative & rich with details. Have fun!

Day 3

5/8,
5/11

Garden observation & culling beets

Look at the following 2 articles. Make a chart with the different species, when they lived, and physical data about each of them. These notes, data, evidence from the two articles will help you to identify the 6 skulls we have in class. If there is data similar to data we are collecting (ie cranial capacity), then you can use that as evidence to make a hypothesis on the skulls we are examining.

• Article "Human Origins and Evolution" in pdf format.Postelthwait, John H and Jopson, Janet L. "Human Origins and Evolution". The Nature of Life. McGraw-Hill Inc: New York. pgs 549 - 555.
• Article Human Evolution History -- has great data to compare!

Complete skull measurements

Post Data: compare and analyze differences among group measurements.

Propose a hypothesis for a cladogram using skull data!

Fill in your hypothesis chart. Be sure you use at least two specific pieces of evidence to support your hypothesis. Quality counts! Refer to our data and compare to specifics that you find in your research. Use the internet, your text and the articles I linked above. Also, don't forget to cite your sources!!!! Be as specific as possible with your evidence!!!

Using your skull data, create a cladogram that you think represents the evolution of Homo sapien sapien. Remember that all cladograms are hypotheses that are based on the best evidence available at the time.

Day 5
5/14 and 5/15

Becoming Human

http://www.becominghuman.org/

Study for Quiz over Human Evolution.

• All homework from this unit: internet research, neanderthal article, charts on articles from above
• Relate concepts from last unit to human evolution ie: differential reproductive success, gene flow, etc. Study your last test.
• Know relative time and important characteristic of the following species: chimpanzee, h. habilias, a. afarensis, a. boisei/robustus, h. erectus, h. neanderthal, h. sapiens.
• Know how to do all of the lab measurement techniques and what their significance is

Day 6

5/18

and

5/19

Quiz: Human Evolution

AP Stat Presentations

Collect data