1 Human Biology 2A/2B Autumn 2007-2008 2A - Stanford University

1 Human Biology 2A/2B Autumn 2007-2008 2A: Genetics, Evolution, and Ecology 2B: Culture, Evolution, and Society

Welcome to the Human Biology Core!

The autumn term of the Human Biology Core is dedicated to the study of human biological and cultural evolution. In 2A we will focus on evolutionary processes, population and molecular genetics, and ecology. In 2B we will examine social theory, selected topics in ethnography, the evolution of the hominids, and the historical emergence of social and cultural complexity. A series of three "modules" integrates the two courses by illustrating the ways in which biology and culture interact. We will begin the quarter with a case study examining the evolution of adult lactose absorption. In the next module, we will explore debates surrounding the genetics and social basis of race and ethnicity. We will end the course with a series of lectures investigating population growth and its effects on our environment. The two sides of the Core are designed to be taken together. Lectures from the two sides complement each other, modules are scheduled from 9:00 to 10:50 am, and class times do occasionally switch in order to accommodate a lecturer’s schedule. Enrollment is therefore limited to students taking both sides of the Core at once (please see Enrollment Policy below). We, the organizers, lecturers, and course assistants of the Human Biology Core, look forward to an exciting year. Please note that our expectations may differ from those you have encountered in previous academic experiences. Acknowledging the important distinction between knowing and thinking, we ask you to analyze and apply knowledge rather than simply to absorb it. On examinations, in section, and in papers you will be invited to think beyond the basic facts. Over the course of the year we hope to help you further develop your analytical skills in the process of exploring human biology. FACULTY AND LECTURERS Carol Boggs, Ph.D., Human Biology and Biological Sciences, 2A Co-Coordinator William Durham, Ph.D., Human Biology and Anthropology, 2A Co-Coordinator Richard Klein, Ph.D., Anthropology and Biological Sciences, 2B Co-Coordinator Melissa Brown, Ph.D., Anthropology, 2B Co-Coordinator Uta Francke, M.D., Genetics Doug Bird, Ph.D., Anthropology Joan Roughgarden, Ph.D., Biological Sciences Merritt Ruhlen, Ph.D., Anthropology Eve Clark, Ph.D., Linguistics Ann Horsburgh, M.A., Anthropology Marc Feldman, Ph.D., Biological Sciences Donald Barr, M.D., Ph.D., Human Biology and Sociology James Truncer, Ph.D., Anthropology Arthur Wolf, Ph.D., Human Biology and Anthropological Sciences COURSE COORDINATOR Nicole Dudukovic, Ph.D., Human Biology

2 COURSE ASSOCIATES (CAs) A-Side:

Dana Goverman Lauren Rimoin Joe Sanford Isabel Shelton-Mottsmith

B-Side:

Stacey Kallem Andrew Rogers Jenny Staves Michelle Wilson

Enrollment Policy The two sides of the Core MUST be taken together. Only in rare, exceptional circumstances will students be authorized to take only 2A or 2B. In such cases, students MUST petition the Director of Human Biology. Petitions are available in the Student Advisors Office (Building 20, Room 21A) and in the office of the Student Services Coordinator, Lia Cacciari (Building 20, Room 21D), and are due back to Lia no later than 9:00am on Wednesday, September 26, 2007. If a petition is not received and/or not approved, we reserve the right to withhold midterm grades, and the student runs the risk of not receiving a grade for the entire class. Note that the exams for both sides will include material from the joint modules. Office Hours 2A Professor William Durham will hold office hours in Building 50, Room 51D-C. Days and times TBA. Professor Carol Boggs will hold office hours on Thursdays 1:30 to 3:00 pm in Building 20, Room 22P. Sign up on the door in advance. Professor Uta Francke will hold office hours on Tuesday 10/30, 11/6, and 11/13 from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm in the Center for Clinical Sciences Research (CCSR) South Building, 3rd floor, Room 3225. Dr. Francke is also available for additional office hours; students can call her at 725-8089 to make an appointment. 2B Professor Richard Klein will hold office hours Tuesday through Thursday from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm in Building 80, Room 203. Professor Klein is also available for additional hours. You may drop by his office, or call 725-9819 to make an appointment. Professor Melissa Brown will hold office hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:15 to 4:30 pm, or by appointment, in Building 40, Room 42F. Sign up on the door in advance. Nicole Dudukovic will hold office hours on Tuesdays from 2:30-4:00 in Building 20, Room 22F. Feel free to drop by her office, call (723-7842) or email her ([email protected]). The Human Biology Course Associates (CAs) can be found in Room 22G of the Human Biology Building (Bldg. 20). Office Hours will also be held in Room 21C of the Human Biology Building. A-side

Dana [email protected]

Wednesdays, 11am to 1pm

Lauren [email protected]

B-side

Stacey [email protected]

Mondays, 2 to 4pm

Mondays, 3 to 5pm

Andrew [email protected]

Wednesdays, 1 to 3pm

Joe [email protected]

Tuesdays, 12 to 2pm

Jenny [email protected]

Mondays & Tuesdays 1 to 2pm;

Isabel [email protected]

Tuesdays, 11am to12pm; Wednesdays, 3 to 4pm

Michelle [email protected]

Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 11am to 12pm

Schedules of CA office hours are also available online through CourseWork. Email is the best way to get in touch with a CA. Alternatively, you can catch him after class, leave a message in her mailbox at Human Biology, or leave a voice mail message at 725-0342.

3 Examinations, Assignments, and Grading Grades for 2A and 2B will be based on the examinations and assignments listed below. Examinations will be based upon material covered in lecture, sections, and readings. Relative contributions to the final grades will be as shown below. DATE DUE

ASSIGNMENT

PERCENT OF TOTAL GRADE

2A Weekly

Section Participation

5%

Problem Sets

15%

Monday, November 5 9:00-10:50 AM

Midterm (covers material through 10/18)

35%

Wednesday, December 12 8:30-11:30 AM

Final (cumulative)

45%

DATE DUE

ASSIGNMENT

2B Weekly

Section Participation

5%

Problem Sets

15%

Monday, October 29 9:00-10:50 AM

Midterm (covers material through 10/25)

35%

Thursday, December 13 8:30-11:30 AM

Final (cumulative)

45%

PERCENT OF TOTAL GRADE

Exam Administration Scheduling Conflicts: If you have a conflict with scheduled exam times due to a University-sanctioned activity (i.e. athletic events, performances, etc.), you must inform Nicole Dudukovic in writing ([email protected]). Plane reservations, vacations, etc., are not valid reasons for submitting a request for an alternate time. For midterm examinations, a request must be submitted by Monday, October 15, 2007, and for final examinations a request must be submitted by Thursday, November 15, 2007. Requests made after these deadlines cannot be accommodated. Proctoring Policy: During exams, Course Associates will only answer questions regarding structural errors in exam questions (i.e. typos, miswording) or questions regarding ambiguity. The CAs and faculty members present will consider questions of the latter nature collectively. If deemed valid, an announcement will be made to the entire class, rather than to an individual student. Grading Policy The top students’ point totals will be averaged to establish a “100%” standard. From that standard, scores will be assigned letter grades according to the approximate scales given below: A-side

90% and above 80-89% 70-79% 60-69% 59% and below

As Bs Cs Ds NPs

B-side

90% and above 80-89% 70-79% 60-69% 59% and below

As Bs Cs Ds NPs

4 Regrade Policy We will accept regrade requests for examinations only to correct addition errors or when a grader has overlooked an answer that clearly corresponds with the key. Arguments over number of points assigned for partial credit will not be considered. Regrade requests must be submitted to Nicole Dudukovic in writing ([email protected]) no later than one week after the exam is returned and must identify specific items for the CAs to re-evaluate. We will not accept regrade requests for exams written in pencil, in ink other than blue or black, or where white-out has been used. We will only accept regrade requests for essay questions when more than 5 points are in question. Professor Melissa Brown will read all essay questions receiving a grade of C or below before exams are initially returned. We reserve the right to regrade the entire exam, and the grade may be affected positively or negatively. Please be aware that photocopies are made of all Scantrons in order to ensure there will be no lost exams, and we reserve the right to photocopy a random sampling of the short answer and essay portions of the exams prior to returning them to students. Honor Code As with all courses at Stanford University, students and faculty in the Human Biology Core are bound to uphold the Honor Code. If a question arises regarding what constitutes permitted and unpermitted aid or a possible Honor Code violation, please contact a faculty member or a CA. Please be advised that all potential Honor Code violations will be pursued through Judicial Affairs. Problem Sets and Virtual Labs Problem Sets: Every week, problem sets will be posted on the CourseWork 2A website and 2B website no later than Wednesday at 8:00 PM. Students may work on the problem sets on-line as many times as they wish until Friday at 7:59 pm. At 8:00 PM, all problem sets will be collected on-line. Answers and grades will be posted on CourseWork on Monday at noon. Any submissions made after 8:00 PM on Friday will be marked late and will receive no credit. Students are advised to save their work frequently and to submit problem sets at least 15 minutes in advance of the deadline. Accommodations for computer errors will not be made. Any requests for problem set extensions due to University-sanctioned activities must be submitted in writing to Nicole Dudukovic before the problem set is released. The first problem set will be released on Wednesday, October 3 no later than 8:00 PM on CourseWork. The deadline for submission of the first problem set will be Friday, October 5 at 7:59 PM. The first problem set will cover material from Monday, September 24 through Wednesday, October 3. Problem sets will be a combination of multiple choice and short answer questions, covering both factual points and critical analysis of the material from the previous Thursday through the Wednesday the problem set is released (except as noted above). For every multiple-choice question, students also will be required to provide a brief rationale explaining their chosen answer. All questions will be graded each week unless otherwise indicated. The problem sets are designed to aid student learning and increase the productivity of sections. Student responses on the problem sets will guide section planning for the following week and selected student answers will be included in the model solutions. While the questions will relate to the central points of the material and will mimic the types of questions that will appear on exams, problem sets will not provide a comprehensive review of all the materials covered on the exams. Students are encouraged to discuss and work through problem sets together; however, we ask you to enter your answers individually and include rationales in your own words, in accordance with the Honor Code. Virtual Labs: Selected weeks of B-side will have a series of virtual labs, which are web-based activities designed to enhance student understanding of the material. They will be graded C/NC only and are intended to provoke a thoughtful analysis of the issues they address; students should not anticipate spending more than 15 to 20 minutes per lab. Virtual labs will be released on days preceding the relevant lectures, and will be due (generally speaking) on the day immediately prior to that lecture. Unlike the problem sets, you may not revise your answers multiple times on the virtual lab. Since they are P/NC, this should not be a problem. All virtual labs will be posted on the CourseWork 2B website. The first virtual lab is not required but is worth two extra credit points if completed on time.

5 Unlike the problem sets, virtual labs will not be released and due on set days of the week, so it is your responsibility to keep track of the due dates. Late submissions (except for accepted absences arranged prior to the release of the virtual lab) will not be accepted. Dates of release and submission are as follows: Virtual Lab 1: Virtual Lab 2: Virtual Lab 3: Virtual Lab 4: Virtual Lab 5:

Release: Mon 9/24 @ noon Release: Tues 9/25 @ noon Release: Thur 9/27 @ noon Release: Mon 10/8 @ noon Release: Thur 10/18 @ noon

Due: Tues 9/25 @ 9am Due: Thur 9/27 @ 3pm Due: Tues 10/2 @ 3pm Due: Sun 10/14 @ noon Due: Sun 10/21 @ noon

Extra Credit (2pts) Required Required Required Required

The CourseWork site will have lecture handouts, announcements, syllabi, problem sets and answers, and CA office hours and contact information. CourseWork administrators will provide technical support to help students access and submit their problem sets. Technical help will be available any time by submitting a HelpSu request through the link on every CourseWork page, or by going to the HelpSu webpage at http://helpsu.stanford.edu. Discussion Sections The curriculum for Human Biology 2A and 2B includes small discussion sections designed to explore and analyze the material from lectures and reading assignments. Participation in a section is obligatory, as sections will help to integrate the lectures, readings, and problem sets. Participation in section will make up 5% of the grade, and is based on the level of active engagement as measured by preparation for section and active section contributions. Sign-ups for sections will take place on the HumBio web site: https://www.stanford.edu/dept/humbio/. Sign-ups will begin Wednesday, September 26, at noon, and end Friday, September 28, at 5:00 PM. Students will submit their preferences for section times for both A and B sides. Sections will NOT be filled on a first-come first-served basis, so please take the time to choose your preferences wisely, taking the rest of your schedule into account—just don’t forget to submit them by Friday at 5:00 PM. Sections are limited in size, but every effort will be made to assign students to their highest possible preference. Sections will begin the week of October 1 and cover lecture material from Week 1. What should you expect from sections? Sections will be fifty minutes long and will provide a forum for discussion of lecture and reading material and for thinking through extensions of that material. Sections will not provide a comprehensive review of all the materials for which students will be responsible on the exams. Instead, students are encouraged to attend office hours with their questions about material not covered in section. Lecture Handouts If a lecture handout is made available by the lecturing professor, it will be posted on the relevant CourseWork site under the “Lecture Handouts” folder the night before the lecture. It will be the students’ responsibility to print a copy of this handout if he/she would like it for the following day’s lecture. In the event that lecture material significantly changes after the handout is posted, an updated handout will be posted following the lecture and it will be the students’ responsibility to ensure that they have the most recent version of the information. Readings Reading assignments are listed in the lecture schedule. The 2A/B Course Reader is available at the bookstore. All readings from the Course Reader will be denoted with an asterisk (*) on the reading schedule. Additional assigned readings denoted on the reading schedule with a plus sign (+) will be posted on CourseWork under “Course Materials.” The following texts will be available for purchase at the Stanford Bookstore and are on reserve at Green Library: A Side Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species: A Facsimile of the First Edition. Boston: Harvard University Press, 1964 [1859]. Durham, William. Coevolution: Genes, Culture, and Human Diversity. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991. Sadava, Heller, Orians, Purves, & Hillis. Life: The Science of Biology (8th ed.). Sinauer Associates, Inc., 2008. B Side Klein, Richard; Edgar, Blake. The Dawn of Human Culture. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002.

6 Reserve Materials Copies of the textbooks and course reader will be on reserve at Green Library. Status of reserves can be checked at the Stanford University Libraries’ Web page: www-sul.stanford.edu. Audio files of class lectures will be available through the iTunes link on CourseWork. Please do not rely on the audio recordings to replace attending lectures. CAs are not responsible for lost, damaged or missing recordings. Students with Documented Disabilities Students who have a disability which may necessitate an academic accommodation or the use of auxiliary aids and services must initiate the request with the Student Disability Resource Center (SDRC), located within the Office of Accessible Education (OAE). The SDRC will evaluate the request with required documentation, recommend appropriate accommodation, and prepare a verification letter dated in the current academic term in which the request is being made. Please contact the SDRC as soon as possible; timely notice is needed to arrange for appropriate accommodations. The letter must be submitted to Nicole Dudukovic at least four days before the first exam of each quarter. For Fall Quarter, letters must be submitted before October 25, 2007. The Office of Accessible Education is located at 563 Salvatierra Walk, phone: 723-1066, TTY: 725-1067. CTL Tutoring We encourage students to attend faculty and CA office hours to ask questions about course material. If additional help is desired, the CTL provides tutoring services for HumBio students. More information will be provided in class and can be found at http://tutoring.stanford.edu.

7 CA Biographies A-Side CAs Dana Goverman Hello and welcome to HumBio! I am so excited to be working with all of you next year in the Core. I came to Stanford from Seattle and graduated last year from HumBio with an A/C in Behavior and Health during Development. I love the sun, Stanford, and the HumBio Core, so I figured why not stay another year on the Farm? As an undergraduate, I was on house staff in a row house, worked in the Stanford Emergency Department, and did some research. I also spent a quarter abroad studying in Barcelona and traveling in Europe. In my free time, I love to run outside, cook dinner for friends, travel, and take way too many pictures. Next year, I am hoping to go to medical school. I can’t wait to get to know all of you so if you have any questions about HumBio, being pre-med, or anything about life at Stanford, come talk to me! Start getting excited for the HumBio Core, it’s going to be an awesome year! Lauren Rimoin Why hellooooo there, and welcome to the Core! There’s nowhere I’d rather be at 9am every morning than sitting in lecture with you guys (seriously), and I’m pumped for what is bound to be a great year. So why am I so excited to be a CA? I’m an enormous HumBio fan – in fact, I’ve been a Student Advisor, TA and Peer Tutor for the program over the past few years. With an Area of Concentration in Cancer and Genetic Disease, I’ve loved my upper division classes and of course, the Core. Outside of HumBio, I’ve been a Peer Health Educator, Oral Communication Tutor, SHPRC counselor, and an undergraduate board member for PWR. Outside of the bubble, I have traveled abroad in South America, performed summer research on stem cells, and shadowed Emergency Room doctors back home. Hailing from Los Angeles, I love anything involving the sun, the beach and outdoor activities. Hopefully I’ll be heading off to medical school next year, but until then, I can’t wait to relive the Core with you all! Joe Sanford What's up, y'all? I can't tell you how excited I am for this year. Originally coming to Stanford from Dallas, Texas, I graduated in 2006 with an AC combining psychology, neurobiology, and ethics (it's actually easier to describe that way than to give its full title) and a second major in English. Put more generally, I've tried to spend my time at Stanford looking at how and why people act the way they do. To that end, I spent my Junior and Senior years as an RA and I was in the Stanford Improvisors for three years. I've also been a counselor at both Camp Kesem and Stanford Sierra Camp, but most of all I'm always up for representing the Y chromosome in HumBio. So here's to an amazing year, y'all. I can't wait to meet you. Isabel Shelton-Mottsmith Hello All, and welcome to one of the most exciting and diverse majors on campus! Being a Human Biology major allowed me to combine my varied interests in biology, psychology and health into a cohesive course of study under the heading of my Area of Concentration: Neurobiology and Behavior. HumBio’s balanced, holistic approach to learning was influential in shaping my undergraduate career, prompting me to get involved in research, eventually doing an Honors Thesis on the underpinnings of mood and anxiety disorders, while also remembering to take time off for new experiences like studying abroad in Australia. Enthusiasm for my major, further, inspired me to take and later TA for Human Behavioral Biology (which every last one of you should take—seriously) as well as become the Academic Theme Associate for Storey, Stanford’s HumBio themed row house. HumBio, though, is much more than a major; it is an inclusive and closeknit community, and that is perhaps my favorite thing about it. The Core is the foundation of that community, and as such, I very much hope to help make it as positive an experience for you as it was for me. I look forward to getting to know and work with all of you! B-Side CAs Stacey Kallem Hello all and welcome to the Core! I’m originally from New York (the suburbs, not the big city) and graduated from Stanford in June ’07. My HumBio AC was “International Health and Infectious Diseases,” although I did consider about half a dozen others before finally settling on it. While at Stanford, I kept busy by mentoring middle school girls in East Palo Alto, conducting research on eating disorders, and volunteering with a hospice patient. I also spent a summer in Tanzania doing HIV education, and if you ask, I will talk your ear off about it. I love to travel and spent part of this summer on a whirlwind backpacking tour of Europe. Other loves, in no particular order, are: the color purple, matzah ball soup, Broadway musicals, and snuggling down with a good book. My long-term goals include studying public health and medicine and then pursuing a career in international health. I can’t wait to get to know all of you and am excited to watch you grow into full-blown “hum biologists!”

8 Andrew Rogers What has two thumbs and is really excited about teaching the Core? This guy! I’m Andrew, and I’m your Bside Y. I’m originally from Dallas, Texas, and I graduated in 2006 with an AC in cognitive neuroscience and developmental psychology. I’ve spent the past year working as a research coordinator in a clinic at Packard Children’s Hospital. As an undergrad, if I wasn’t in the working in the psych department, you could probably find me on the lacrosse field or in the radio booth, calling sports for KZSU. I also wrote for the Stanford Daily, and spent some time volunteering with USVH and Arbor Free Clinic. In addition to teaching the best major at Stanford, I’m applying to med school this year, so if you want to talk with me about that, make my day! Actually, you can pretty much talk to me about anything, but if you want me to respond, especially baseball, flying, research, training for an Ironman, Seinfeld, or any of that stuff I mentioned above. Welcome to Human Biology! Jenny Staves Welcome to the wonderful world of HumBio! I can’t tell you how excited I am to join you for an amazing year in the Core! I graduated from Stanford last spring with an AC in Medical Anthropology – a yummy mix of international health, anthropology, history, and religious studies. I also worked as a research assistant at the Center for Infant Studies (affectionately referred to as the “Babylab”) – a developmental psych lab under the direction of HumBio Professor Anne Fernald. Other favorite Stanford memories include: studying abroad in Paris, volunteering with kNOw MORE (a non-profit group dedicated to educating local teens about relationship abuse), and becoming addicted to white chocolate mochas from Moonbeans. When I’m not raving about how much I love HumBio, I enjoy singing, dancing, the beach, and chocolate-frosted donuts from Happy Donuts. Congratulations on joining the best major at Stanford, and I’m looking forward to getting to know you all! Michelle Wilson Hi, Welcome to the Core! My name is Michelle and I’ll be one the eight CA’s ready to answer all of your burning questions about science, social science life, etc. I’m really looking forward to getting to know you and making your experience in the core unforgettable. I know this sounds like a lot of hype but the HumBio experience is pretty spectacular. I hope that throughout the year I can help you discover all of the reasons why HumBio is the most popular major at Stanford (for all of you who didn’t know, you’ve stumbled upon a good thing!) I’m already looking forward to our 10am rendezvous, last minute pset emails, and all of the questions you will undoubtedly ask me that I will not have the answers to. About me, I graduated from Stanford in 2007 with a major in Human Biology and an AC in Health and Health Policy. I love to eat out, am not fond of the gym, and am a fan of daytime napping. Nothing delights me more than banana ice cream, live jazz, and weekend trips to the California state parks. Feel free to email me about anything, from questions about being premed to the much welcomed sharing of must-see YouTube videos. I’m looking forward to it. Here’s to HumBio! Where in the World is HumBio? We’re on the opposite side of the quad now! Please come visit us in our new building.