I took this class over the summer as part of the anthro science sequence. Overall, I feel that this class was more interesting than the next semester's Behavioral Biology of Living Primates. There's quite a bit of material to memorize in this class, and it didn't help that everything was compressed into one summer session. There's also one project where you have to go to the American Museum of Natural History and spend literally at least half a day copying down tons of information that you're just going to forget anyways. Decent class I suppose. The professor has a great personality and obviously tries to get students interested in the material. I do respect the fact that Prof Shapiro cares a lot about teaching unlike many of the other klumps Columbia hires to do research.