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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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Lecture and seminar schedule: I The roots of humans and their cultures: the introduction to the study of human evolution. II Searching for relatives: methods of reconstruction of the evolutionary relationships. III Humans among mammals: the heritage from a common ancestor. IV The origins of human behavior and social organization: methods and approaches. V General trends in human evolution. VI First ancestors: the oldest hominins. VII Australopiths: what have we learned about their morphology and behavior? VIII The origins of genus Homo: adaptive radiation in the late Pliocene. IX The first real humans: the evolutions of H. erectus and ergaster in the Early Pleistocene. X Archaic H. sapiens: the origins of anatomically modern humans and neanderthals. XI Neandrthals: our distant relatives? XII Anatomically modern humans: the evolutionary basis of today's populations. XIII The human genom: molecular information about the human origins. XIV TEST Seminar schedule: I The introduction to the study of human evolution as presented in scientific literature. III The evolution of oldest hominins. V The evolution of social organization (subsistence strategies, mobility, technology, culture in relation to other primates). VII The hominin evolution in Early and Middle Pleistocene; first hominin migrations out of Africa. IX The evolution of anatomically modern humans and their relationship to neanderthals. XI Conclusions. XIII TEST
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Discussion, Self-study of literature, Lecture, Seminar
- Contact hours
- 52 hours per semester
- Presentation preparation (report) (1-10)
- 10 hours per semester
- Preparation for comprehensive test (10-40)
- 38 hours per semester
- Preparation for an examination (30-60)
- 30 hours per semester
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| prerequisite |
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| Knowledge |
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| vysvětlit základní pojmy evolučního pohledu na živý svět |
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| kriticky reflektovat prameny a odbornou zahraniční literaturu, se kterou pracuje |
| porozumět a interpretovat odborný text v českém jazyce |
| porozumět a interpretovat odborný text v anglickém jazyce |
| learning outcomes |
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| Knowledge |
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| charakterizovat a vysvětlit hlavní principy evoluce člověka a klíčové nálezy jednotlivých forem včetně nálezových okolností |
| charakterizovat a podat přehled o historických a současných názorech na evoluci člověka a místo H.sapiens v rámci evoluce primátů |
| charakterizovat a prezentovat klíčové teorie původu člověka, vztahu člověka k ostatním primátům |
| určit a popsat ekologické, behaviorální, kulturní a sociální faktory v lidské evoluci |
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| samostatně interpretovat nové poznatky o evoluci člověka na základě samostatného studia odborné literatury |
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| Lecture |
| Self-study of literature |
| Discussion |
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| Seminar |
| Discussion |
| Textual studies |
| Self-study of literature |
| assessment methods |
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| Written exam |
| Individual presentation at a seminar |
| Test |
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| Written exam |
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| Continuous assessment |
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Recommended literature
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Cartmill, Matt; Smith, Fred H. The human lineage. Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, 2009. ISBN 978-0-471-21491-5.
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Conroy, Glenn C. Reconstructing human origins : a modern synthesis. 1st ed. New York : Norton, 1997. ISBN 0-393-97042-6.
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k dispozici na katedře. Atlas of human evolution.
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Wheeler, Q. D. and Meier, R. (Eds.). Species Concepts and Phylogenetic Theory: a Debate.. New York, Columbia University Press, 2000.
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