BSc Biology with Industrial/Professional Experience

This research-led unit is taught by staff who are actively investigating aspects of primate biology and human morphological and behavioural evolution.  The unit will cover a broad range of evidence and approaches including the morphology, behaviour and phylogentic relationships of extinct and extant primates; the origins of key hominin adaptations such as bipedalism and enhanced cognitive capacities; and the major evolutionary transformations in morphology and behaviour in the human lineage.

This unit reviews the palaeontological, archaeological and genetic evidence for primate and human evolution with a strong emphasis on recent theoretical advances and new discoveries that have made significant contributions to this field of research during the past decade.