Hi,
Next fall I am slated to teach an upper division non-majors course
titled Human Ecology here at Fresno State. Its been a few years
since this course was last taught here, and I will be doing it for
the first time. Here's the catalog description for the course (as it
was offered in the
Madhu,
I teach an essentially identical course and I have not found any
textbook that is adaquate. I instead ended up writing my own 'textbook'
of course notes which you are welcome to have a copy of, plus selected
readings. The only book I ask my students to read is 'The Third
Chimpanzee' by
How about Self-Made Man by Jonathan Kingdon? I thought it was a great
natural history of the Homo lineage, apparently a bit out of the
mainstream for evolutionary anthropologists, but well-documented and
compelling. I think it would be fine for non-majors. Plus it is
outstanding at describing
