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MIT OpenCourseWare
Human Origins and Evolution
Art: Georg Agricola, De re metallica - gold panning (125711726), 1556 · Public domain
- Instructor
- Dr. Harry Merrick
- Term
- Spring 2006
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 38 other files · 3 web pages
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- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 3.987 Human Origins and Evolution, Spring 2006, Dr. Harry Merrick — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Lecture Notes
20 files
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Assignments
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Study Materials
Other materials from this course
9 files
- This resource contains information on readings (fyi07.pdf) Download
- This resource contains information on readings (fyi08.pdf) Download
- This resource contains information on notes on the changes across the middle / upper palaeolithic… (handout21_1.pdf) Download
- This resource contains information on readings (handout21_2.pdf) Download
- This file is a resource which contains information on Hominid Behavior, Humanness and ways how… (read_response1.pdf) Download
- This file is a resource which contains information on Contrasting views of the origins of humans (read_response2.pdf) Download
- This file is a resource which contains information on Contrasting views of the behavior of… (read_response3.pdf) Download
- This file is a resource which contains questions on Jeopardy-style questions, Hominin Species and… (study_guide.pdf) Download
- This file is a resource which contains information on Bibliographic referencing and citations (guide_for_refs.pdf) Download
Course outline
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Lecture 6: Tertiary Higher Primates: Our Pre-Hominid Predecessors
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Lecture 9: Early Hominids - Variations and Taxonomy - Presentations
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Lecture 10: Hominid/Human Origins: Hypotheses and Speculation
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Lecture 11: Early Homo : How Should Homo Be Defined?
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Lecture 14: The Archaeology of the Early Hominids II: Interpreting Early Hominid Behavior and Current Research Directions
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Lecture 15: Midterm Exam
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Lecture 16: Homo ergaster and erectus : Emerging Modern Morphology
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Lecture 17: Slowly Emerging Modern Behaviors: Early Stone Age / Lower Palaeolithic Age
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Lecture 18: Homo heidelbergensis and neanderthalensis or Early “Archaic” H. sapiens ?
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Lecture 21: Origin of Modern Homo sapiens : Morphology and Genetic Evidence
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Lecture 24: Modern Homo sapiens II: To the Threshold of Civilization
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