ANT 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Malaria, Measles, Malnutrition
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Race is a biologically meaningless concept in terms of classifying individuals into populations. The concept of race has a long history as a way to classify the variation between human groups. The classifications has often led to violations of human rights under the pretense of. Race is equivalent to a sub-species however, there are no modern subspecies in most humans. We see that this is a result of adaptation. There is more variation within races than between them. Infectious disease: caused by intro of a pathogen. Exert enormous selective pressures on populations, influencing frequencies of alleles affecting immune response. Cultural factors affect how infectious disease develops and persists. Mosquitoes (malaria), fluids (hiv), rusty nail, sexual intercourse, air. Communicable: passed from person to person directly. Zoonotic: transmitted to humans through contact with nonhuman animals. Pandemic: over vast amount of geographic space. Measles, west nile virus (in certain areas of the world tropical regions)
