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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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1. Introduction to the course, human ontogeny in a comparative framework. Life histories of humans, apes, and other primates. 2. From conception to death 1 - prenatal ontogeny 3. From conception to death 2 - postnatal ontogeny and senescence 4. Methods of auxology. Evaluation of changes in body parameters. 5. Foundation of sex during human ontogeny.. 6. Sexual maturation and development of secondary sexual characteristics. 7. Factors and variation of stature development. 8. Factors and variation of body mass development. 9. Biological and psychosocial maturation. 10. Changes in body parameters during adulthood. 11. Reproduction and its influence on variation in body proportions. 12. Qualitative and quantitative loss of reproduction. 13. Changes of the human body during later phases of life.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Skills demonstration, Seminar classes, Students' self-study, Self-study of literature, Textual studies, Lecture
- Preparation for comprehensive test (10-40)
- 22 hours per semester
- Contact hours
- 26 hours per semester
- Preparation for an examination (30-60)
- 30 hours per semester
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| Knowledge |
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| Have a good grasp of biological anthropology basis. |
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| Understand the language of scientific text (in Czech). |
| Understand the language of scientific text (in English). |
| learning outcomes |
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| Knowledge |
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| Have a good grasp of main topics of body transformation during ontogeny and senescence. |
| Get acquainted with the methods by which these transformation can be described and studied. |
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| Describe major changes in bodily parameters through which they underwent or will undergo in their lifespan. |
| Describe and analyse causes of such transformation. |
| teaching methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Lecture |
| Textual studies |
| One-to-One tutorial |
| Self-study of literature |
| Skills |
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| Seminar classes |
| Textual studies |
| One-to-One tutorial |
| Self-study of literature |
| assessment methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Oral exam |
| Test |
| Skills |
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| Test |
| Oral exam |
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Recommended literature
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Bogin Bary. Patterns of Human Growth. 2nd edition.. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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Brace, C. Loring. Evolution in an anthropological view. Walnut Creek : Altamira Press, 2000. ISBN 0-7425-0263-5.
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Edited by ML Zelditch. Beyond Hetechrony: The Evolution of Development. Wiley-Liss, 2001. ISBN 0-471-37973-5.
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Edited by N Minugh-Purvis and KJ McNamara. Human Evolution through Developmental Change. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8018-6372-0.
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edited by Noel Cameron and Barry Bogin. Human growth and development. Academic Press, 2012. ISBN 9780123846518.
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Edited by P O´Higgins and M Cohn. Development, Growth and Evolution: Implications for the Study of the Hominid Skeleton. Academic Press, 2000. ISBN 0-12-524965-9.
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Muehlenbein, Michael P. Human evolutionary biology. 1st pub. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-521-70510-3.
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Ulijaszek, Stanley J.; Johnston, Francis E.; Preece, Michael A. The Cambridge encyclopedia of human growth and development. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-521-56046-2.
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