AN 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Permanent Teeth, Senescence

• School: Quinnipiac University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: AN 102
• Professor: Professor Ullinger

Document Summary

Cline: a gradual change in some phenotypic characteristic from one population to the next. Blumenbach"s skulls: johann blumenbach created a classification system for humans based on the shapes of crania he collected. He sketched the four skulls representing four of his five main groups (african, asian/mongoloid, caucasoid, american indian) Personal genomics: the branch of genomics focused on sequencing individual genomes. Life history: the timing and details of growth events and development events from conception through senescence and death. Prenatal stage: the first stage of life, beginning with the zygote in utero, terminating with birth, and involving multiple mitotic events and differentiation of the body into the appropriate segments and regions. Postnatal stage: the second stage of life, beginning with birth, terminating with the shift to the adult stage, and involving substantial increases in height, weight, and brain growth and development.