Lecture Notes

These are my recent lecture notes and other miscellaneous course information. Some are HTML pages and some are PDF files. The PDF files require a version of Adobe Acrobat to read them. This is probably already installed on your computer but if not it can be obtained from many places on the web.

Loughborough University

Semester 1

HUB217 Human Evolutionary Anatomy

Students on this course should also look at the lecture notes under Primate Adaptation and Evolution

1. Primate Taxonomy
2. Australopithecines
3. Genus Homo
4. The Skull
5. Dentition
6. Primate Brains
7. Postcranial Skeleton
8. Primate Locomotion
9. Phylogenetic Reconstruction
10. Analysing Human Remains

Sample Exam Paper

As this is the first year the course has been run there are no past papers. However here is a sample exam paper to look at.

HUA201 Anatomy & Physiology 1

These are the outlines for the problem-based practicals:

1. Anatomical Terminology
2. Bones and Joints
3. Muscles and Movement
4. Nervous System
5. Cardiovascular

HUA210 Human Evolution and Adaptation

This is a mixture of lecture notes and copies of slides:

1. Introduction to Evolution
2. Introduction to the Primates
3. Evolutionary Psychology
4. Earliest Hominids
5. Early Humans
6. Genetic Evidence 1
7. Genetic Evidence 2
8. Current Controversies

Semester 2

HUB110 Anthropometry and Biomechanics

1. Fundamentals of Biomechanics
2. Example Questions

HUB216 Musculoskeletal Biology

1. Muscle Physiology
2. Introduction to EMG
3. Muscle Mechanics
4. Assessing Muscle Function
5. Upper Limb Function
6. Lower Limb Function

University of Edinburgh

Anatomical Sciences 4 & Zoological Sciences 4

Primate Adaptation and Evolution (1999)

1. Primate Taxonomy
2. Primate Fossils
3. Phylogenetic Reconstruction
4. Strepsirhine Haplorhine Split
5. The Strepsirhines
6. Tarsiers and New World Monkeys
7. Old World Monleys and Hominoids
8. Australopithecines
9. Genus Homo
10. Primate Brains

Suggested Reading List
Previous Exam Questions

Human Origins

1. Primate Evolution

Physics in the Life Sciences

1. Studying Animal Movement

Human Anatomy 3m

1. Digestive System (3 lectures)

Anatomical Sciences 4

Human Evolution (1995 to 1998)

1. Anatomy and Evolution
2. Phylogenetic Reconstruction
3. Primates: an Introduction
4. Strepsirhines
5. Haplorines
6. Hominoids
7. Fossil Primates
8. Early Hominids 1
9. Early Hominids 2

General Booklist
Previous Exam Questions

Limb Course (1998)

1. Limb Evolution

Statistics (1998 to 1999)

1. Statistical Concepts
2. Remedial Statistics

Group Project Lectures

1. Web-page Creation

Group Projects

The web pages for the group projects in Anatomical Sciences are available here (probably only viewable within Edinburgh).