Class Participation Article Summary 1 Outline Find an article relating to biological anthropology from a popular site (e.g.

. National Geographic, Discover, Scientific America, Science News, local newspaper, etc.) and complete the first (Original source) and second (Reflection) parts of the outline. Find a second source related to your first and complete the third part of the outline (Related source). Limited responses will not receive full credit. More detailed instructions and links to resources are posted on Canvas.

1. Original source: http://www.opb.org/news/blog/ecotrope/how-returning-wolves-arechanging-yellowstone/ a. Title: How returning wolves are changing Yellowstone b. Author(s): Cassandra Profitera c. Authors credentials: Environmental reporter d. Source (complete reference; see AJPA guidelines for authors) Trophic Cascase in Yellowstone: The first 15 years after lf reintroduction, Ripple, William J.; Beschta, Robert L. e. Summary (note that the summary length should be commensurate with the article length and should be in narrative (paragraph) format and that an in-text citation is required): The article touches on the fact that just by introducing wolves back into yellowstone that it had a trophic cascade which means that one tiny change, had a huge impact on everything else in Yellowstone. Just by introducing the wolves back to Yellowstone animals that had left Yellowstone years ago had started to come back on their own, rivers changed and the soil around them started toe regenerate and had less corrosion all due to one minor change, the wolves. f. Critical evaluation (what makes this source credible? Why should this information be believed?): The source she is using which she links to is from the actual reported study by two scientists, William J Ripple, and Robert L Beschta g. Relevance to biological anthropology: It is a broad scope of how everything is interconnected and how we have to get a better understanding of how and why these things happen. h. Other disciplines touched upon: Archaeology, Geologists etc. i. Synthesis i. In one sentence, summarize the main point of the article: the take-away message. Wolves had a bigger impact in Yellowstone than we could have ever imagined. 2. Reflection a. Which part of this assignment was most difficult and why? Writing this outline

b. Identify at least one question you have after reading the original article and explain how you could go about finding an answer. What caused the wolves to become extinct in Yellowstone in the first place. I would do some more research using google to find out how and why they disappeared. c. Reflect on how the critical evaluation process impacted your opinion on the article. No affect, since they were using their sources as a published study. d. How might the information in the article be useful in the future? This might be answered very broadly such as how an understanding of larger biological principles might be useful. It might be useful in that we can maybe figure out how to start healing other parts of the world that may have been damaged over time etc. 3. Related source a. Title: Yellowstone transformed 15 years after the return of the wolves. b. Author(s): No author of article given. c. Authors credentials: unknown d. Summary (note that the summary length should be commensurate with the article length and should be in narrative (paragraph) format and that an in-text citation is required): same thing as the first article, it just explains the broad impact of the wolves had on yellowstone, not just on the wildlife, but also on the world around it. Including the rivers and the forests. e. Critical evaluation (what makes this source credible? Why should this information be believed?): they link they sources to also be linked to the actual study published by the original scientists. f. Relevance to chosen article: states the same things as the first article, to confirm what its saying.