ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Forensic Anthropology, Eradication Of Infectious Diseases, Herd Immunity
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Just as morphological variation in humans, we have a fantastic variety of gender and sexual identities and biologies, respectively. Old days: external boys parts or external girl parts. Newer days: xy (male) or xx (female); trisomy (xxx, xxy, xyy); pentasomy (including xxxx, xxyy, xxxxx, xxxxy and xyyyy). New days: all kinds of external and internal parts!! Biological sex is incredibly variable in plants and animals; don t just look at ours. Have revolutionized medicine in 20th century, contributing to near eradication of some diseases (e. g, stds, tb, etc. Widespread immunity due to vaccination and herd immunity is largely responsible for worldwide eradication of smallpox and restriction of diseases such as polio, measles, and tetanus. Anti-vaccination movement: parents (who have been vaccinated) not vaccinating their children due to ignorance (they have no experience with the pathogens) but not lack of intelligence; many have university degrees and equivalent training. Borrows methods and techniques developed from skeletal biology & osteology.
