What This Document Is
This is the first lab assignment for ANTHP 105: Physical Anthropology Human Species at Hunter College CUNY. It’s designed to assess your understanding of the fundamental mechanisms driving evolutionary change in populations. The assignment is a worksheet with questions relating to definitions, graph interpretation, and a simulation of natural selection.
Why This Document Matters
This assignment is for students enrolled in ANTHP 105. It’s typically completed after introductory lectures on evolution and serves as a practical application of those concepts. Successful completion demonstrates a grasp of core evolutionary principles, which are foundational to the rest of the course.
Common Limitations or Challenges
This assignment requires you to *apply* knowledge, not simply recall definitions. It assumes you’ve already engaged with the course material and completed the assigned video viewing. This document provides the assignment itself; it does not offer instruction or solutions.
What This Document Provides
The full assignment includes:
* Definitions to complete for key terms like evolution, phenotype, and allele frequency.
* Graph identification exercises (scatter plot, line graph, histogram).
* Questions based on a video simulation of natural selection.
* A simulation exercise focusing on one specific mechanism of evolution (mutation, genetic drift, genetic bottleneck, or natural selection) with corresponding questions.
This preview only provides a summary of the assignment’s structure and content. It does *not* include the video link, the simulation link, or the questions themselves.