Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds

Human Biology
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HUMB 1020 - Introductory Anatomy

HUMB 2040/2130 Workbooks

HUMB 3070 - Evolutionary Developmental Biology

HUMB 1020 - Introductory Anatomy

Text of overhead transparancies for introductory lectures in anatomy

1. Introduction 
2. Terminology 
3. Bones 
4. Joints 
5. Muscles & Nerves 
6. Circulatory System & Blood 
7. Respiratory System 
8. Digestive System 
9. Excretory & Reproductive Systems 

HUMB 2040/2130 Workbooks - please note these are PDF files.

Abdomen

• Practical 1 
• Practical 2 
• Practical 3 
• Practical 4 

• Practical 1 
• Practical 2 
• Practical 3 
• Practical 4 

• 1. Give an account of the diaphragm 

HUMB 3070 - Evolutionary Developmental Biology

• 1. How and why do we classify animals? 
• 2. Geological time Phyla then and now, Top of the pops 
• 3. The top ten phyla (continued) 
• 4. The curious history of the phyla 
• 5. Clarifying our thoughts about evolution 
• 6. Speciation and Extinction 
• 7. Multicellularity 
• 8. Introducing Larval Forms 
• 9. Embryology, classification and evolution. 
• 10. What is it possible/necessary to change? 
• 11. Epigenetic common ground 
• 12. Epigenetic cascades and pattern 
• 13. Cell behaviour and pattern 
• 14. Controlling the size and shape of the limb 
• 15. How many toes, and would sir like them webbed? 
• 16. Controlling segmentation