Human Ecology - OENBB1709Z

• Title: Human Ecology
• Guaranteed by: Katedra biologie a environmentálních studií (41-KBES)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2020
• Semester: both
• E-Credits: 4
• Hours per week, examination: 0/2, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (5); summer:unknown / unknown (5)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan; you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
• Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Václav Vančata, CSc.

Annotation

Last update: Kateřina Esserová, DiS. (11.06.2019)

The aim of the course is to bring listeners the meaning of the environment for understanding a number of biological properties, the way of life and the behavior of human populations and societies not only at present but also during their historical development. The subject is conceived according to the individual world biomes, emphasizing those of them, which have played and still play a significant role in the existence of human populations in the course of their evolution.

Literature

Last update: Kateřina Esserová, DiS. (11.06.2019)

Foley R. A., 1987: Another Unique Species. Patterns in human evolutionary ecology Longman Scientific and Technical, Harlow.

Gamble C., 1995: Timewalkers. The Prehistory of Global Colonization. Penguin Books, London.

Marks J., 1994. Human Biodiversity. Genes, Races, and History. Aldan de Gruyter, New York.

Bisborough A., 1995: Human evolution. Blackie Academic and Professional, London.

Boesch C., Boesch-Achermann H., 2000. The Chimpanzees of the Taï forest. Behavioural Ecology and Evolution. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Conroy G. C., 1997. Reconstructing Human Orignis. Norton and Company, New York.

de Waal F., (ed.) 2001. Tree of Origin. What Primate Behaviour Can Tell Us About Human Social Evolution. Harvard University Press, Cambridge and London.

Fagan B. M., 1989: People of the Earth. An Introduction to the World Prehistory (Sixth edition). Scott, Feresman and Company, Glenview, Boston, London.

CAMPBELL, B. Human Ecology. Aldine de Gruyter, New York 1995.

KORMONDY, E.J., BROWN, D.E. Fundamentals of Human Ecology. Prentice Hall, New Jersey 1998.

PETER J. RICHERSON, MONIQUE BORGERHOFF MULDER, BRYAN J. VILA.. Principles of Human Ecology. Pearson Custom Publishing, 1996.

GERALD G. MARTEN. Human Ecology: Basic Concepts for Sustainable Development. Earthscan Publications, 2001.

DANIEL G. BATES, GERALD AUDESIRK, BRUCE BYERS. Human Adaptive Strategies: Ecology, Culture, and Politics. Pearson A and B, 2005.

Requirements to the exam

Last update: Kateřina Esserová, DiS. (11.06.2019)

Active participation in tutorials and discussion of the essays

Syllabus

Last update: Kateřina Esserová, DiS. (11.06.2019)

The subject of migration and human ecology should provide a basic overview of the colonization of the world, the gradual settlement of individual continents with an emphasis on the settlement of Europe and the gradual creation of modern European populations from the Upper Paleolithic, through the Neolithic to Present. The basis will be information from the area of paleoanthropology, historical anthropology, archaeology, paleogenetics and population genetics. Students should acquire basic knowledge so that they can actively use them in school practice and in other educational activities.

1. Colonization of the world and basic differential of human populations in Upper Paleolithic and Mezolithic

2. Basic migratory trends in non-European human populations

3. Colonisation of Europe in Paleolithic, Mesolite and Neolithic.

4. Shaping and migrating European populations from the Neolithic to the younger Bronze Age.

5. Shaping and migrating historical European populations and populations in the Mediterranean region.

6. Archeology and Population genetics

7. Paleogenetics and migration in Europe in the Neolithic and bronze period-the implication for the genetics of the current populations

8. Significance of genetics for reconstruction of health problems and possible mutations, genetic drift and effects of small populations in the prehistory and history of European populations

Course completion requirements

Last update: Kateřina Esserová, DiS. (11.06.2019)

Active participation in seminars.

Providing of theportfolio of two works relating to the issues of human ecology, send to teacher.