Our Origins: Discovering Physical Anthropology (Fourth Edition)
Our Origins: Discovering Physical Anthropology (Fourth Edition)
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ISBN: 9780393614008
Author: Clark Spencer Larsen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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To describe: What is clinal variation.

Introduction:  The Bergmann’s rule indicates that as latitude increases, the breadth of the body also increases. Skin pigmentation is an example of clinal variations. From higher latitude to equatorial, the skin color between people is widely varied from dark to light.

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To identify: Two physiological effects of solar radiation that acted as a selective pressure in shaping the clinal variation pattern to observe human skin color.

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