Category: Readings

Animal emotions — Do animals feel as we do?

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Post date August 10, 2023
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https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2021.622811

Krause, A. & Nawroth, C. (2021). Animal emotions — Do animals feel as we do?. Front. Young Minds. 9(622811). doi: 10.3389/frym.2021.622811

Article with linked sources and a list of references describing the basics of emotions and how they are measured in animals.

Assigned as a pre-class reading to introduce students to the study of emotions in non-human animals. While intended for a younger audience this article is appropriate for most readers including CUNY students.

Course content area – Emotions

Course – Evolution & Behavior (100 level)

Campus – Hunter College

Tags affective states, emotions, physiology

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Gene Switches

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Post date August 10, 2023
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https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/genes/fate-nf.html

NOVA article (PBS) by Nipam Patel covers the role of gene switches in evolution including Hox genes.

Assigned as a pre-class reading for a class on Raw Material – DNA, genes, variation, inheritance, epigenetics

Course content area – Raw Material – DNA, genes, variation, inheritance, epigenetics

Course – Evolution & Behavior (100 level)

Campus – Hunter College

Tags DNA, epigenetics, genes, Raw material

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Understanding Evolution (Section 18.1 of Biology textbook)

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Post date August 10, 2023
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https://openstax.org/books/biology-2e/pages/18-1-understanding-evolution

Segment from Biology textbook giving an introduction to Darwin, processes and patterns of evolution, and evidence of evolution.

Used as an optional reading to support material covered in a class introducing the basics of evolution.

Course content area – Evolution Basics – history (Lamark, Darwin), evidence (fossils, homology)

Course – Evolution & Behavior (100 level)

Campus – Hunter College

Tags evolution basics, history

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Great Minds Think Alike: Darwin & Wallace

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Post date August 10, 2023
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https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/great-minds-think-alike/

NOVA article (PBS), by Sean Carroll, talks about Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin.

Used as an extra reading to support lecture material.

Course content area – Evolution Basics – history (Lamark, Darwin), evidence (fossils, homology)

Course – Evolution & Behavior (100 level)

Campus – Hunter College

Tags Darwin, evolution basics, history

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Genes & Behavior Textbook Segment

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Post date August 10, 2023
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https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Psychology/Biological_Psychology/Biopsychology_(OERI)_-_DRAFT_for_Review/03%3A_Evolution_Genes_and_Behavior/3.09%3A_Genes_and_Behavior

Segment 3.9 Genes and Behavior from a Biopsychology open textbook.

Course content area – Raw Material – DNA, genes, variation, inheritance, epigenetics

Course – Evolution & Behavior (100 level)

CUNY College – Hunter College

Tags DNA, epigenetics, genes, mutation, Raw material

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Human evolutionary history impacts our covid-19 risk

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Post date August 10, 2023
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https://evolution.berkeley.edu/teach-resources/evo-in-the-news-human-evolutionary-history-impacts-our-covid-19-risk/

Short news article from the UC Museum of Paleontology about Neanderthal genes and how they impact a person’s risk of COVID-19. Article updated July 2022.

Course content area – Human Behavior & Evolution

Course – Evolution & Behavior (100 level)

CUNY College – Hunter College