ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Secondary Sex Characteristic, Multimodal Distribution, Human Reproduction
19 Mar 2013
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Men are from mars, women are from venus: touched on the belief that males and females are very different and have trouble understanding each other. Sex: biological differences between males and females, xx = female, xy = male, rare exceptions xxy, xxx, etc. There are fundamental differences between males and females that differentiate them (tied to biology) Differences in functional morphology related to childbearing. Refers to characteristics that males and females have that are different enough that show a bimodal distribution. Size differences females tend to be shorter, males tend to be taller. There is an overlap between females and males where there are similarities. Most sexually dimorphic traits: height, length of limbs. Two types of sex characteristics: primary sex characteristics, reproductive organs (ovaries, testes, external genitalia, directly responsible for human reproduction, can be seen initially at birth, secondary sex characteristics, physical differences not directly related to reproduction, eg.
