Saturday, August 18, 2012

Assignment 4: Exploring Human Variation

Assignment 4: Exploring Human Variation

Visit the website called "RACE: Are We So Different?" (a product of the American Anthropological Association) (http://www.understandingrace.org/humvar/index.html). Explore all of the activities on human variation found on this page and then take the "Human Variation Quiz" to test your knowledge of race and human variation.
  1. How did you do on the quiz? If you missed some questions, can you characterize the area(s) where you tended to answer incorrectly?
  2. How does the activity titled the "Human Spectrum" relate to the text? Discussion of clines?
  3. Why are natives of Alaska and Canada not pale-skinned, given that they live in places where there are long periods of darkness every year?
  4. Can scientists determine a person's race by looking at his or her DNA?
  5. What have we learned about DNA from the Human Genome Project?
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