Anthropology

 Introduction to Biological Anthropology Merritt, Fall 2018 

Extra Credit Assignment 2: Pop-culture movie critique Human evolution is a fascinating subject that has made its way into our culture’s popular imagination. For this assignment, you will review a movie with a topic relevant to some aspect of human evolution and discuss its scientific validity. Your movie critique should not focus on your opinion of the film, but center around how its content matches with the facts from the human fossil and archaeological records. Some examples of movies that would work well are: 2001: A Space Odyssey 10,000 BC Cave of Forgotten Dreams (although there are many more that would be appropriate) You can earn up to two percentage points on your final course grade by completing the extra credit assignment. To earn full credit you should turn in an assignment that meets the following requirements: -includes a detailed review of the film that is grounded by a discussion of relevant aspects of the human fossil and archaeological records -free of grammatical, spelling and formatting errors -2-3 double-spaced pages in TNR 12-point font -Due before 11:59 pm on December 13 (or earlier) -You must submit this assignment via the Extra Credit assignment link on our Canvas course page. The originality report for your essay must be higher than 90% to earn credit for this assignment.