A fill in the blanks activity on the natural selection of traits that enabled cooperative foraging in our ancestors
Grade or Expertise Level: 6-8
A reading text about cooperative foraging in the animal kingdom and in our early ancestors
A series of experiments with small children and chimpanzees to investigate their ability and motivation to engage in collaborative activities
In this short video, we observe how chimpanzees seem to be unable to spontaneously coordinate their activities to get food – something that humans
In a series of experiments, anthropologists wanted to find out whether chimpanzees and bonobos work together and share a common source of food. Results
All causal maps on human evolution in one Google slide file
Materials for constructing causal maps about the evolution of human traits on the blackboard
A handout that introduces students to the causal map to map the evolution and development of traits, with the example of upright walking
A worksheet in which students calculate and graph the changes in the frequencies of traits related to upright walking in a population over several
Google sheet template for entering and plotting the measurements of hominin fossil skulls
