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I E STD M70

Language and Evolution

(Same as Linguistics M4.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Homo Sapiens is only species on Earth with capacity to create infinite number of utterances from small inventory of speech sounds. How and why our species developed this ability is question of fundamental scientific and humanistic importance. Survey of origin of human language from number of intellectual perspectives, including linguistics, anthropology, and evolutionary biology. Exploration of relationship between language faculty and linguistic theory. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.91
n = 74 · 2 terms · ± 0.059
A range
96%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
4%
100% of those passed
D / F / W
0.0%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Discussions are indented under their lecture. You enroll in the discussion, so its status is the one that decides whether you get in — a lecture can read open while every discussion under it is full.

Sections offered, with live enrollment and predicted GPA
Section Predicted GPA Status Enrolled Seat risk Meets Instructor
Lec 1
3.92
this instructor · 74 grades
 Closed
100 of 100
100% full
 fills TR 12:30pm-1:45pm Clayton, J.B.
Dis 1A Closed 25 of 25 · 0 left F 10:00am-10:50am · Dodd Hall 162
Dis 1B Closed 25 of 25 · 0 left F 11:00am-11:50am · Dodd Hall 162
Dis 1C Closed 25 of 25 · 0 left F 12:00pm-12:50pm · Dodd Hall 162
Dis 1D Closed 25 of 25 · 0 left F 1:00pm-1:50pm · Dodd Hall 162

Seats over time in Fall 2026

How each lecture has filled since Dibs first saw it.

Lec 1 · Clayton, J.B. · 100 of 100 enrolled

Unchanged over 1 day

17 Aug 12:32capacity 10018 Aug 17:24

Enrollment history

Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. This is the shape across years, not this term -- that is above.

  • 3424S
  • 4325S
Enrolment by term: 24S 34, 25S 43
Peak 43 Most recent 43 in 25S 2 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 36 · 46.8%
  • A 28 · 36.4%
  • A- 7 · 9.1%
  • B+ 1 · 1.3%
  • B 1 · 1.3%
  • C+ 1 · 1.3%
  • P 3 · 3.9%

Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.

By instructor

Instructor Predicted Raw n Terms A range
CLAYTON, JOHN BUNYAN 3.92 3.93 74 2 96%

“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department — so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.

By term