ANT100Y1 Lecture 6: Anthro notes Lecture 6
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Sequential hermaphroditism: individual changes sex at some point in its life. For os(cid:272)olaris ((cid:374)e(cid:373)o"s dad in finding nemo) develops as male first, and when they mature, they become females. Sexual determinism: xy sex-determination system in many mammals, zy sex-determination system in many birds, x0 sex-determination system in many insects, temperature-dependent sex determination in reptiles. Medical anthropology: medical anthropology is a subfield of anthropology that draws upon social, cultural, biological, and linguistic anthropology to better understand those factors which influence health and well being, healing processes. Cultural importance and utilization of pluralistic medical systems. Infectious disease: caused by microbial agent, death rates by infectious disease between developed countries and developing countries, pandemics, co-evolution of humans and pathogens. Chronic disease: a disease that is more or less permanent, leaves residual disability, and is caused by a non-reversible pathology. Virus: a microscopic, infectious organism composed of rna or dna that relies on the genetic machinery of living cells to grow and reproduce.
