ANTHROP 2200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Egg Cell, Homeostasis, Puberty
18 Sep 2016
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Race concept: c. brace argues started in renaissance. Franz boas: challenges taxonomic approach to human biological variation, head shape indicators, focus on biological process rather than typological. Human variation is geographic cline not racial categories; cline: gradual change in some phenotypic characteristics from one population to the next. Skin color changes due to changes in altitude and proximity to the equator, not taxonomic differences. Life history: timing and details of growth events and developmental events from conception through senescence and death. Involves substantial increase in height, weight, and brain growth and development: neonatal period (first month) b. Infancy (second month to end of lactation: production and secretion of milk from female mammal"s mammary glands, providing food source to her young: childhood (3-7 years old, usually post-weaning) d. Juvenile (7-10 for girls, 7-12 for boys: puberty (days or weeks, adolescence (5-10 years after puberty, adult: third stage of life that involves reproduction and senescence.
