Synopsis
  
   
 

 

EMRC, 50 Circus Avenue, Kolkata 700 017. Ph. 91-33-22874869 Fax. 91-33-2289-1373

EMRC St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata is part of a large family of EMRCs spread across India. This family has in fact 18 members, including the head office at New Delhi. The other members are at Srinagar, Roorkee, Patiala, Jodhpur, New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Indore, Sagar, Imphal, Pune, Mysore, Chennai, Madurai, Calicut and two at Hyderabad.

All the centres come under the purview of the university of that particular place. In Hyderabad one is with the Central Institute for English and Foreign Languages (CIEFL) and the other is with Osmania University. It is only the Kolkata EMRC that comes under the purview of St. Xavier’s college.

All funding – both for running expenses and equipment – comes from the University Grants Commission. The coordination of production, telecast and other programme related affairs is done by the Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC), New Delhi. The administration is done by the host university/college.



Concepts of Human Origin

Duration : 28:47    Year : 2004    Code No. 3953

The programme contains a lecture delivered by DR. R. M. Sarkar, former Head, Department of Anthropology, Bangabasi College, Kolkata, author Fundamentals of Physical Anthropology and editor Man In India. In the first part of the introductory lecture he discusses the Pre Darwinian concepts of human evolution. He narrates the theory of creation as expressed by the age-old story of Adam and Eve. Then he introduces the theory of evolution. He explains how the theory of special creation has been challenged by the theory of evolution. In the second part of the programme he discusses how Charles Darwin established his theory of natural selection with concrete evidence and the contribution of Alfred Russell Wallace and Thomas Huxley.

Anthropology : 2.2.1

Duration : 28 : 24    Year : 2004    Code No. 3985

The term evolution refers to the genetic changes in a population of organism that occurs over time and often used loosely to refer to the appearance of a new species. Earlier theories of evolution, for example Lamarckism and Darwinism dealt with origin of new species.

The synthetic theory of evolution primarily focused on gradual changes from generation to generation. This is called synthetic as it fuses Darwin’s concept of natural selection with information from the field of genetics, mathematics, embryology, paleontology, animal behavior and other disciplines.

In the first section of this presentation Dr. Arup Ratan Banerjee categorises the evidence of evolution into two parts – macroevolution and microevolution. There he establishes the associate model of synthetic theory of evolution under the purview of microevolution. Then he derives Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium equation and explains how the synthetic theory of evolution can be tracked with this equation.

In the concluding part Dr. Banerjee explains the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium model in detail. Further, he clarifies different evolutionary forces like Random Mating in Large Population, Non-random Mating, Mutation, Genetic Drift, Gene Flow and Natural Selection for understanding the Synthetic Theory of Evolution.

Anthropology: 2.3.1

Duration : 28:00    Year : 2004    Code No. 3998

The living world is made of two kingdoms- plant and animal. In the first section of this presentation Dr Subho Roy identifies the position of human being in the animal Kingdom.

He explains the kingdom, the sub kingdom, the phylum, the sub phylum, the class, the sub class, the infraclass, the cohort and the order of human being. Human beings belong to the order primates- one of the orders of the animal kingdom, which also includes lemurs, lorries, tarsiers, monkeys and apes. Dr Roy gives the definition of the order Primates, discusses some general characteristics of the order primate.

In the concluding part Dr. Roy explains the classification of the order Primates made by Buettner Janusch in the year 1973 bringing up the sub orders, infra orders, super family, family, members and their distribution. There he also mentions the classification made by Richards in the year 1885. Finally he points out the Position of human beings in the order primate.
< Previous II Page -1 of 4 II Next >
© 2006-2007 EMRC.
All Rights Reserved.