The Science of Upright Walking

开始时间: 04/22/2022 持续时间: 5 weeks

所在平台: EdxArchive 课程类别: 其他类别 大学或机构: DartmouthX 授课老师： Jeremy DeSilva Sawyer Broadley Adam Nemeroff Ellison Mcnutt Amy Witzel

课程主页: https://www.edx.org/archive/science-upright-walking-dartmouthx-dart-anth-01-x

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Have you ever wondered why humans walk on two legs rather than four? In this course, we will explore how science investigates this unusual form of locomotion. We will start our investigation by looking at the mechanics of upright walking in humans and comparing that to bipedal locomotion in large birds, bears, and apes.

We will journey back millions of years into the human fossil record in an effort to understand how and why upright walking evolved. Around our first birthday, each of us learned how to walk, but how does this happen? With bipedalism came costly trade-offs as well-- we’ll examine these aches and pains as byproducts of our evolutionary history.

This course will take an intentionally interdisciplinary approach to studying how and why humans move bipedally. You will be exposed to anthropology, biomechanics, anatomy, evolution and paleontology to explore something deeply human: upright walking.

课程大纲

• The nature of scientific inquiry and the role of evidence in testing hypotheses
• The mechanics of upright walking and how unusual this form of locomotion is for a mammal
• How scientists use evidence to examine the origins of upright walking
• How anthropologists use the bones of animals today to bring fossil remains of our ancestors “back to life”
• That upright walking has advantages and costly trade-offs

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