Question

explain about human in biology​

Answer 1

Answer:

Human biology is the branch of biology that focuses on human beings and human populations; it encompasses all aspects of the human organism including genetics, ecology, anatomy and physiology, anthropology, and nutrition, among others. Human biology is related to other fields of biology such as medicine, primate biology, and biological anthropology.

Answer 2

Explanation:

Human Biology Definition

Human biology is the branch of biology that focuses on human beings and human populations; it encompasses all aspects of the human organism including genetics, ecology, anatomy and physiology, anthropology, and nutrition, among others. Human biology is related to other fields of biology such as medicine, primate biology, and biological anthropology.

History of Human Biology

Humans have been focused on understanding themselves ever since gaining higher-order thought processes. One could say that the study of human biology began with the evolution of humans. However, the term “human biology” was not used to describe a separate subfield of biology until the 20th Century. Raymond Pearl, a professor of biometry and vital statistics at Johns Hopkins University, was the first modern biologist to use the term “human biology”. In 1929 he founded the peer-reviewed scientific journal Human Biology, which still exists today.

Much of human biology in the past was concerned with the issue of race. Beginning in the Age of Exploration, different ethnic groups came into contact with each other more and more frequently, and it was during this time that the notion of race began to be developed. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, biologists used the typological model of race. This concept grouped the world’s human populations into distinct categories based on geographic location and a small number of physical traits. It was based on the work of past biologists.

For example, in the 18th Century, the father of taxonomy Carolus Linnaeus grouped the world’s people into four categories, going as far as to state that the different racial categories were different subspecies of the human species. The typological model made broad, inaccurate generalizations about people of different ethnicities, but it was used for around 100 years, until as late as the 1940s. Closely related to the typological model was the eugenics movement, which aimed to “improve” the genetic makeup of the human race through selective breeding and banning certain groups of people from reproducing.

Sterilization programs were carried out in the United States in the early 20th Century. At first these programs were targeted toward the mentally ill, but they expanded to target alcoholics, prostitutes, and even people who were considered promiscuous, feeble-minded, or in chronic poverty. Around 65,000 Americans, the majority of which were minorities, were sterilized against their will. Eugenics lost favor by World War II, especially after the horrors of Nazi Germany and Hitler’s use of eugenics principles became apparent.