Homework #5
Anth1
S2008
Due Monday June 2, 2008


1. Go online to the BECOMINGHUMAN.ORG website and launch the Building
Bodies website on the Learning Center page (see top menu box, and then
go Building Bodies or simply link here
http://www.becominghuman.org/building_bodies)
a. Following this exercise where you learn about the differences in
the anatomical structure between the species – answer me the following
question. What do you think is the single biggest transformation that
had to take place FIRST before anything else had to take place?

2. I want you to pretend you are an ONLINE GAMING RULES EDITOR. And
I want you to construct a rule book or direction book for someone just
learning how to walk. GET THEM FROM A SITTING POSITION IN A CHAIR TO
TAKING TWO STEPS. In other words, they have been in space their whole
lives, they have never had to be bipedal in their lives. What are the
steps to standing up and walking? What are the muscles they need to
use? Where do they balance and how do they lean etc. We really need
these directions to be explicit.

3. Are you in Anthropodenial? And if so, how does it make itself
manifest? (See the Smith reader Chapter 8)

4. Quickly explain the difference between absolute dating techniques
and relative dating techniques.

5. What is a fossil made of?