<p>Does anyone know?</p>
<p>I only remember hearing about the bio professor who uses his baseball cap to invite people to lunch on Fridays.</p>
<p>Ken Miller, definitely one of the top 5 professors in biology anywhere. He teaches teh intro bio class that has a "million" students and a graduate course on cell biology (i think). He has written a textbook that is used by many high schools and is constantly flying around the country to give speeches on various subjects.</p>
<p>Plus he was a swimmer/ water polo player, now thats cool.</p>
<p>miller spoke at opening day convocation, he sounds amazing. Too bad I'm skipping BI 20.</p>
<p>Miller was also the first witness for the prosecution in a case in Pennsylvania this last month about stopping the mandatory teaching of ID (or, mentioning and directing to a textbook actually) in public school.</p>
<p>"human biology" isn't really a college discipline since it is usually studied across multiple model systems, of which humans are only one. there is the broad subject of biology, that is divided by functional and technical systems--and there is the clinical application of biology to humans, which is basically medicine</p>
<p>Is Ken Miller the same professor who invites lunchgoers with the baseball cap?</p>
<p>yeah, usually after every lecture</p>
<p>dcircle, at Brown you can get a bachelor's degree in Human Biology, I'm looking at the requirements in the course catalogue right now.</p>
<p>that's true but to fulfill the concentration requirements you take courses in various disciplines--not human bio per se (for example: physiology, immunology, genetics, epidemiology, etc.)</p>
<p>you then choose focus areas and themes that could potentially even include things like "race and gender"--in which case, a lot of the "human biology" concentration classes would actually be in the anthropology department</p>
<p>For the record, most of these courses, though hard, are very well taught.</p>