Human Variation & Race

1.  At high altitudes our blood isn't capable of absorbing oxygen; we preform best at sea level.

2. The human body adapts to what is effectively oxygen deprivation by initially increasing heart rate, breathing rate, then the number of hemoglobin, then density of capillaries.
Short Term: Increased breathing rate
 
 Facultative: Exercise

Developmental: Body adapts

Cultural: Sherpa Family


3.  Benefits of studying human variations is to prepare one self to what's to come.  Info. from explorations can be used for experiments.  It can be used in a productive way such as training.

4. The inhabitants of the Himalayan mountains is a good example of their adaptations to the high altitudes of the the Himalayas.  Such as the Sherpa who inhabit the Himalayas have genetic adaptations to high altitudes.  Over generations of inbreeding showed a predominance of high-altitude genes that exist in some peoples in Asia and a set of low-altitude genes that exist in other groups of Asians.
 

Language Blog

Part one of the experiment was quite difficult at first because it felt like playing charades.  I asked my sister to help me with this assignment and she had a very difficult time trying to figure out what I was trying to say.  After a couple of minutes I began to point things out and each time she got it wrong I would shake my head saying no or yes.  My sister had the advantage in communicating complex ideas.  The culture that uses symbolic language would obviously get irritated because my sister was getting irritated.  Individuals in our culture such as foreign exchange students would have a terrible time speaking.  When I was in middle school I met some girl that originated from Japan and she couldn't speak any English and her only way of communicating was through her small computer which she would type what she wanted to say. 

Part two of the experiment was very hard for me and I can understand the frustration my sister went through.  We didn't get to finish the 15 minutes (ended at13:50) because it was a daunting task for me because we kept having to restart.  I'd catch myself raising my arm, etc... and we would start over from there.  In a sense I enjoyed messing around with my sister because she had little to no patients to these sort of things.  The use of signs in language is very important because there are certain things that words can't describe.  Reading body language is very difficult and it's so difficult that there are class for reading body language.  The benefit to having the ability to read ones body language is the fact that you can determine their emotion.  The only time when reading ones body language wouldn't benefit you is if you were in the middle of an ocean during a storm.