ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Secondary Sex Characteristic, Karyotype, Gender Identity
16 Sep 2013
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Lots of ways to classify the same things. Secondary sex characteristics: females have rounder chins, men and woman store fat differently women throughout hole body and men away from arms and legs. Because women give birth we have to have more fat stores. Evolution: women had to be able to store fat easily to survive during famine and for baby to survive as well. Women have a wider more full shaped pelvis. Gonadal sex is important when differentiating between two sexes. Think of sex as male or female, nothing in between. Culturally you belong to one group or another. Lots of people who do not reach all of the criteria to be placed in one group or the other. Turner"s syndrome: second x chromosome is missing pieces so it is not a complete copy. Does not have proper development of ovaries, shorter, less breast development. May not show symptoms so may not know have it.
