Chapter 7 Human Biodiversity Today
Anthropometry
The measurement of body parameters that assess physical variation and the relative contributions of
particular body parts to overall body shape.
Blood types
Sets of proteins that coat the red blood cells, which serve a variety of functions ...
The measurement of body parameters that assess physical variation and the relative contributions of
particular body parts to overall body shape.
Blood types
Sets of proteins that coat the red blood cells, which serve a variety of functions in the human body,
including delivering oxygen to tissues and producing antibodies as an immune response.
Clinal
A type of variation in which change is gradual across groups and the traits shade and blend into each
other.
Cormic index
Standing height divided by sitting height.
Culturally-constructed concept of race
A set of cultural or ethnic factors combined with easily perceived morphological traits (e.g., skin
reflectance, body shape, cranial structure) in an artificial "biologized" category.
Discrimination
Negative or unfair treatment of a person because of his or her group membership or identity.
Embodiment
A concept that refers to how people literally incorporate, biologically, the material and social worlds in
which they live, from conception to death.
Eugenics
The study of genetics with the notion of improving human biology and biological potential; often
associated with simplistic, erroneous assumptions about the relationship of behavior or cultural traits
with simple genetic systems.
Forensic analysis
The identification and description of dead people.
Human biodiversity
The similarities and differences within and across human groups that have biological dimensions.
Human Genome Project
An international scientific research project between 1990 and 2003 whose goal was to identify all the
genetic material in humans.
, Human Leukocyte Antigen System (HLA)
A series of proteins on the surface of white blood cells that recognize foreign particles or infectious
agents.
Intermembral index
The ratio of arm length to leg length.
Melanin
A complex polymer that is the main pigment in human skin, occurring in two
colors, black and brown.
Naturalized
Made part of the natural order of things through the production of scientific theories, schemes, and
typologies.
Race
A system that organizes people into hierarchical groups based on specific physical traits that are thought
to reflect fundamental and innate differences that are rooted in genetic and biological differences.
Racism
The repressive practices, structures, beliefs, and representations that uphold racial categories and social
inequality.
Scientific Concept of Race
A population or group of populations within a species that has measurable, defining biological
characteristics and low statistical measures of similarity.
Subspecies
A population that meets the criteria defined within the scientific concept of race.
Which of the following is not an example of the ways humans vary biologically?
race
What is the cause of clinial variations?
Hx movement. intermingling between populations, & gene flow
The social processes that make race part of the natural order of things—by producing theories,
schemes, and typologies about human differences is
the naturalization of race
Which of the following groups of people were instrumental in the development of categorizing humans
into distinct races?
scientists
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