Evolution Through Time and the Descent of Humans

Name: Evolution Through Time and the Descent of Humans
Author: StemPy Lab

Life has a very long history, and we are a very late part of it. You walk through the main events from the first cells to the dinosaurs and the mammals. Then you follow the human line from the early apes to Homo sapiens, with the size of the brain at each step. At the end you read evolutionary trees and the numbers of human evolution with Python. It serves the Indian syllabus (NCERT, NEET) and the matching topic of A-Level, IB and AP.

3 lessons, about 1 h 25 min3 simulations10 problems3 practice questionsPython in every lesson

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Course outline (3 lessons)

Lesson 1about 30 min
A brief account of evolution through geological time
Life has a very long history, and we are a very late part of it. This lesson walks through the main events that NCERT gives, from the first cells to the age of the mammals, on a strip that you can measure. It also says which parts the NEET syllabus does not list.
1 simulation1 practice question1 Python program4 problems
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Lesson 2about 25 min
From early apes to modern humans
We are one branch of a long family line. NCERT follows it from the hairy apes of 15 million years ago to the modern human. This lesson gives each step in turn, with its brain size and what it did, and then follows the numbers.
1 simulation1 practice question1 Python program3 problems1 Python lab
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Lesson 3about 30 min
Evolutionary trees and the numbers of human evolution
Two species look alike. Are they close relatives? A tree shows the answer, and numbers can build the tree. This lesson reads evolutionary trees, builds one from a table of differences and uses numbers to date a split.
1 simulation1 practice question1 Python program3 problems1 Python lab1 question set1 note
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Evolution Through Time and the Descent of Humans

Course outline (3 lessons)

A brief account of evolution through geological time

From early apes to modern humans

Evolutionary trees and the numbers of human evolution

Test Your Learning

Your teacher

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