Biological Anthropology

Biological or Physical Anthropology involves investigating our origins and biological diversity. It is the study of humans as an organism. This science focuses on the human body; why we are the way we are and how we got this way. Physical Anthropology (Anthropology 101-Human Biological Evolution and the Anthropology 111, Lab) are the courses that receive the greatest enrollment because they fulfill the general education requirement in the biological sciences. Over the years we have developed an anthropology collection consisting of human and primate skeletal material, fossil casts, archaeological material, and much more to use in teaching these classes. The other courses that fit into this category are Anthropology 118, The Fundamentals of Forensic Anthropology and Anthropology 119, Introduction to Forensic Anthropology.