Syllabus
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Course Code: B-ANTH-101 Course Name: Introduction to Anthropology |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | 1. Meaning, scope and development of Anthropology. 2. Relationships with other disciplines: Social Sciences, Behavioral Science, Life Sciences, Medical Sciences, Earth Sciences and Humanities. 3. Main branches of Anthropology, their scope and relevance: a) Social Cultural Anthropology b) Biological Anthropology. c) Archaeological Anthropology d) Linguistic Anthropology 4. History of Physical Anthropology and Development of Modern Biological anthropology, aim, Scope and relationship with allied disciplines. |
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| 2 | 1. Organic Evolution: Evidences of organic evolution, Evidence from Morphology,
Evidences from Taxonomy, Evidence from Comparative Anatomy, Evidence from
Comparative Physiology, Evidence from Zoogeography, Evidence from Embryology,
Evidence from Palaeontology. 2. Theories of Organic Evolution : Lamarck’s Theory, Criticism of Lamarckism, Darwin’s Theory, Impact of Darwin’s Revolution, Objection to Darwin’s Theory, Synthetic Theory of Evolution. 3. Principles and Processes of Evolution: Parallelism and Convergence, Adaptive Radiation, Irreversibility of Evolution 4. Human Skeletal Morphology: Cranial Osteology, Post – Cranial Osteology and dentition. |
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