![]() ![]() There are certainly academic reasons for studying human diversity. ![]() Before we tackle these big problems, this first begs the question: Why should we study human diversity? Since the birth of the discipline of biological anthropology, we have been interested in studying how humans vary biologically and what the sources of this variation are. Cognitively, humans also have a natural desire to categorize objects and other humans in order to make sense of the world around them. Relate a more nuanced view of human variation with today’s ongoing bioanthropological research, implications for biomedical studies, applications in forensic anthropology, and sociopolitical/economic concerns.Identify phenotypic traits that reflect selective and neutral evolution.Explain how biological variation in humans is distributed clinally and in accordance with both isolation-by-distance and Out-of-Africa models. ![]()
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