Corona, Alyhana Faith T.

11-06-19
12- Romans SS 002

Assignment #1

1. What is Human Variation?

- The human species is highly variable in every biological trait. Humans vary in their physiology,
body proportions, skin color, and body chemicals. Many of these features influence susceptibility to
disease and other forces of natural selection. Continued selection over time has produced adaptations of
local populations to the environments in which they live. Much of human biological variation is
geographic; that is, there are differences between population groups from different geographical areas.
For example, northern European peoples differ in certain ways from those from eastern Africa, and those
from Japan differ in some ways from those from the mountains of Peru. Between these populations,
however, lie many other populations that fill in all degrees of variation between the populations we have
named, and there is also a lot of variation within each of these groups.
(http://abacus.bates.edu/acad/depts/biobook/ch07.pdf)
2. What are the differences of the people from the following aspects
a. Biological
- processes and states that occur in the bodies and cells of living things.
- concerned with the study of living things.
- warfare involve the use of bacteria or other living organisms in order to attack human
beings, animals, or plants.
(https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/biological)
b. Socio-economic
- focuses on the relationship between social behavior and economics.
- It examines how social norms, ethics, emerging popular sentiments, and other social
philosophies influence consumer behavior and shape public buying trends. It uses history, current
events, politics, and other social sciences to predict potential results from changes to society or the
economy.
(https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/social-economics.asp)
c. Culture
- cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings,
hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material
objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through
individual and group striving.
- systems of knowledge shared by a relatively large group of people.
(http://people.tamu.edu/~i-choudhury/culture.html)