Cold Vs. Culture

 (a) heat, (b) high levels of solar radiation, (c) cold, or (d) high altitude.  Discuss specifically how this environmental stress negatively impacts the survival of humans by disturbing homeostasis

 The cold affects us humans by sicknesses. The freezing cold can cause sickness including colds, hypothermia, influenza, pneumonia to just name a few. The cold affects certain body parts then the others, including nose, hands, feet, and ears. The cold can sometimes effect humans in different countries as by snow, rain causing humans not to go to work, or also destroying farmers crop lands.  Some of these sickness can even lead up to even death.

Identify 4 ways in which humans have adapted to this stress, choosing one specific adaptation from each of the different types of adaptations listed above (short term, facultative, developmental and cultural).  Include images of the adaptation

Short Term

Us as humans have to deal with he cold as a part of life in general. We don't have t deal with the cold all the time 24/7 though. We can use things in our home to keep ourselves from getting cold. We just don't have to use blankets or other humans to keep us warm. We can use heaters now to keep human from getting cold in the cold times.

 

Facultative

 People have the choice if they want to live in an area that's either cold or hot. Me personally I don't like to live in an area that is cold. I don't adapt to well to the cold. I prefer to live where the sun is out and shining giving the day a bright sunny afternoon. If a person isn't a cold weather person living in the east wouldn't be a great idea.

 

Developmental

Certain people who live in the cold, adapt really well to the cold rather then people who aren't always around the cold. In the colder areas people seem to be more white and are easily immune to the cold. Also humans that have higher body mass are less likely to be cold in a low temperature setting then to those that have very few body mass.

 

 

Cultural

In some cultural the cold climate may prevent some people to eat certain foods. Due to that some foods can get imported but prices may raise up. Some of humans traditions may be affected due to the cold preventing them to do all what there traditions are needed to do outside.

 

What are the benefits of studying human variation from this perspective across environmental clines?  Can information from explorations like this be useful to help us in any way?  Offer one example of how this information can be used in a productive way?

By studying this stuff it makes me see and realize how certain cultures can lose there cultural in some ways in different type of climates. It also helps see how different cultures adapt differently to climate change. Information from exploration can be useful to us if maybe one day we inhabit an area that is in a cold climate. 

 How would you use race to understand the variation of the adaptations you listed in #2?  Explain why the study of environmental influences on adaptations is a better way to understand human variation than by the use of race.

People from Latin America would have a harder time adapting because they are use to warmer climate then the northern east could would. Another understanding is that people with darker skin pigment were at a disadvantage of Vitamin D, which helps with bone growth and regulates neuromuscular functions.

 



Body Signals

 This experiment was a difficult one to go through. I 'am more of a talkative person. To go through this experiment was pretty difficult, having to go from not talking to signaling each other trying to understanding what our needs and mostly our communication. As a human being growing up as a child speaking comes first before typing words and writing. My partners impression on this assignment was, he found his ways and paths to communicate back to me. He also found it hard for me to realize what we were trying to communicate with each other.  He did have to change his way of communication by using different colors around him and using anything item around to show what he was thinking. My partner thinks he would be the one with the complex ideas if meeting for the first time from different cultures. If I was to be speaking culture and my partner was a symbolic culture I would be very frustrated and maybe a little mad. I would wish I was able to understand his symbolic language. Humans who speak and for those who don't speak are both effected by not being able to fully understand what we are both trying to say. We may not know what the other person is saying and he can really try hard to communicate but still not understand that eventually either one or both person get frustrated and give up.
 The second part of the assignment was a little easier but was still difficult as well. We could not fully do the assignment with just speech communication. The difficult part about this assignment was not being able to use hand gesture and try not to use any head movements. This form of communication affected himself by not being able to get any form of attitude of expression given. Being able to understand body language can be very beneficial by being able to approach someone. By being able to know by the way someone shows there emotions through there body. The time when you can benefit from not being able to read body language would be when you are blind. Being blind its quite difficult to understand and visualize body language but can more clearly understand through the way people speak.