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BIAN2115: 'Race' and Human Genetic Variation (6-unit undergraduate course)
BIAN3115: Regional Topics in Human Genetic Variation (3-unit undergraduate 'add-on' course)
BIAN6115: 'Race' and Human Genetic Variation (postgraduate course)
ALL ESSAYS HAVE NOW BEEN RETURNED TO THE ESSAY COLLECTION AREA IN CHRISTINE DWYER'S OFFICE, ARCH & ANTH, AD HOPE G13. YOU ARE FREE TO COLLECT THEM WHENEVER YOU LIKE, DURING HER OFFICE HOURS.
TWO OF THE ESSAYS WERE RE-SUBMITTED WITHOUT THE FIRST VERSION ATTACHED AND ACCORDINGLY THESE ONES HAVE BEEN RETURNED UNMARKED. THESE STUDENTS WILL GET THE MARK THEY WOULD HAVE GOT IF THEY HAVE DECIDED AGAINST THE RE-SUBMISSION OPTION.
HAVE A GOOD BREAK EVERYONE! MAYBE SEE YOU BACK HERE NEXT SEMESTER.
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CURRENT ANNOUNCEMENTS
1) In the last lecture Fri 5th June I shall conclude the theme of the penultimate lecture, round off the lecture series as a whole, and give an exam briefing. Past exam papers are not available but this is your chance for a briefing on exam preparation, format, question style, and examinable material. There will be an opportunity to ask questions.
2) Please note: there is a small error in the reference for the Lahr & Foley article listed for reading in week 13. The first page of the article is p. 137, not p.131.
3) Jacqui Kempton supplied some web links in association with her ILP session: to open her document, click here.
4) Presentation source lists and powerpoint summaries: just a reminder for everyone please to give me a list of main sources for their tutorial presentation. If you used powerpoint, please supply your powerpoint summary also (which may include the references).
5) If you would like to receive a mark/feedback on your presentation, please email me to request that. If I have not answered within a week, please feel free to remind me.
6) See you at the exam if not before. I recommend you check all details for yourself.
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GENERAL COURSE INFORMATION
This will be the main place to consult for course materials (news, handouts, lecture summaries) for the above courses in Semester 1 2009.
Tutorial sign-up is now open for all three courses at the Faculty of Arts online tutorial sign-up site: http://arts.anu.edu.au/tutorials/registration.asp
All tutorials start in week 2 (just a brief meeting for BIAN3115).
Lecture summaries (Powerpoint) and handouts will be available here, added as the course proceeds. Click on the right-hand entry in the tables below for access. Most handouts will also be distributed in paper form, and available also via the drawers in the AD Hope building and at the Arch & Anth office (ADH G13). One or two longer ones may be in electronic form here only. Guest lecture summaries cannot be guaranteed but will be included where used and made available. Lectures will be digitally recorded, subject to their agreement in the case of guests, and will be available via WebCT (i.e. the BIAN2115 WebCT page, BIAN3115 and BIAN6115 students may need to seek access to this page if they don't already have it).
BIAN2115 (undergraduate lecture course)
Tutorial sign-up: first come, first served. If you don't need to choose the tutorial immediately following the lecture, please choose another one to help people who only have that option.
Readings for tutorials: will be as per a handout to be distributed shortly (will also be available below). Some readings are in sources that are already electronic; others have been scanned and are available at ANU library electronic reserve.
Presentations: anyone wishing to give their BIAN 2115 tutorial presentation in week 2, please email me immediately. Otherwise, a schedule of tutorial presentations will be determined at the week 2 tutorials.
| HANDOUTS | |
| BIAN 2115 course outline | 2115 outline |
| BIAN 2115 assessment scheme | Assessment |
| BIAN 2115 tutorials and tutorial reading | Tutorials |
| BIAN 2115 essay topics | Essay topics |
| BIAN2115 extension request form | Extension request form |
| BIAN2115/6115 practice test | Practice test |
| LECTURE SUMMARIES: MAIN SERIES | |
| Lecture 1: ‘Race', ancestry and adaptation | Lecture 1 |
| Lecture 2: ‘Race' and taxonomy | Lecture 2 |
| Lecture 3: Oceania and the Science of Race (Dr Bronwen Douglas, Pacific & Asian History, RSPAS) | Lecture 3 |
| Lecture 4: The distinctiveness of a southwest Pacific population – is this the same as an Australoid race? (Dr David Bulbeck, Archaeology & Natural History, RSPAS; Australian Institute of Health and Welfare) | Lecture 4 |
| Lecture 5: Race as a social category (Prof Francesca Merlan, Archaeology & Anthropology) | Lecture 5 |
| Lecture 6: The Biological Evolution of Humanity: Modern human variation and its origins (Prof Colin Groves, Archaeology & Anthropology) | Lecture 6 |
| Lecture 7: ‘Race' and the Geography of Human Biological Variation | Lecture 7 |
| Lecture 8: Mutation, Variation & Disease | Lecture 8 |
| Lecture 9: Sex and sex chromosomes (Prof Jenny Graves, Comparative Genomics Group [RSBS], Biology) | Lecture 9 Some pictures may not show here |
| Prof Graves has also made a couple of recent review articles available as PDFs | ARG and Cell articles |
| Lecture 10: Unilineal genetic systems | Lecture 10 |
| Lecture 11: A wander through the human genome (Dr David Rowell, [BoZo], School of Biology) | Lecture 11 |
| Lecture 12: Genomic imprinting (Dr David Rowell, [BoZo], School of Biology) | Lecture 12 |
| Lecture 13: Interaction of genes and environment | Lecture 13 |
| Lecture 14: Gene pools, gene frequencies & the conditions for micro-evolution | Lecture 14 |
| Lecture 15: Human inbreeding (Cathy Day, Archaeology & Anthropology) | Lecture 15 |
| Lecture 16: Physical variation & climate in Aboriginal Australia (Ian Gilligan, Archaeology & Anthropology) | Lecture 16 (PDF, NB layers lost) |
| Lecture 16: Physical variation & climate in Aboriginal Australia (Ian Gilligan, Archaeology & Anthropology) | Lecture 16 (PPT, NB 268 MB) |
| Works of Nina Jablonski were referred to in lecture 16, an article in Ann. Rev. Anth. (see right) & 'Skin: a Natural History' | ARA article |
| Lecture 17: Sickle-cell anaemia | Lecture 17 |
| Lecture 18: More on haemoglobin | Lecture 18 |
| Lecture 19: Beyond haemoglobin | Lecture 19 |
| Lecture 20: What a genome can tell us (Prof Simon Easteal, Predictive Medicine Group, JCSMR, Res Sch of Biology) | Lecture 20 |
| Prof Easteal referred to several web sites during his lecture, especially https://www.23andme.com/ | |
| Lecture 21: Genetic drift and gene flow | Lecture 21 |
| Lecture 22: Genomics, natural selection and health (Prof Simon Easteal) | Lecture 22 |
| Lecture 23: Genes, languages and material culture | Lecture 23 |
| Lecture 24: Population biology as population history: the case of New Guinea | Lecture 24 |
| Lecture 25: Human genetic variation in modern perspective | Lecture 25 |
| LECTURE SUMMARIES: 'COURSE WITHIN A COURSE' - BASIC GENETICS | |
| Lecture 1A: Mendel's principles | Lecture 1A |
| Lecture 3A: The cellular basis of genetic inheritance | Lecture 3A |
| Lecture 5A: Sex chromosomes, sex linkage, sex differences | Lecture 5A |
| Lecture 7A: DNA, the genetic code and protein synthesis | Lecture 7A |
| Lecture 9A: Linkage, recombination, chromosome mapping | Lecture 9A |
BIAN3115 (add-on course)
The majority of the substantive tutorials for this course will take place in the second half of the semester, but we will need to have planning meetings before that starting in week 2. Please contact me (e.g. by email) ASAP if you have any problems with arrangements for this tutorial time.
| HANDOUTS | |
| BIAN 3115 course outline | 3115 outline |
| BIAN 3115 assessment scheme | Assessment |
| BIAN3115 extension request form | Extension request form |
For lecture summaries, see under BIAN2115.
BIAN6115 (postgraduates)
Let me know if you wish to give a presentation in week 2, otherwise we will settle presentations for the rest of the semester in that first tutorial. Please contact me (e.g. by email) ASAP if you have any problems with arrangements for this tutorial.
| HANDOUTS | |
| BIAN 6115 course outline | 6115 outline |
| BIAN 6115 assessment scheme | Assessment |
| BIAN 6115 tutorials and tutorial reading | Tutorials |
| BIAN 6115 essay topics | Essay topics |
| BIAN6115 extension request form | Extension request form |
| BIAN2115/6115 practice test | Practice test |
For lecture summaries, see under BIAN2115.
This site will be added to as the course progresses.
My standard office consultation hours will be Mondays 10 am - 12 noon, except as meetings etc require. I can also be emailed or telephoned or visited and can make appointments outside my office hours on request.
Robert Attenborough
Biological Anthropology
School of Archaeology & Anthropology
AD Hope Building
Australian National University
email: robert.attenborough@anu.edu.au