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Pages in category "Lists of people by physical attribute" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Human physical appearance is the outward phenotype or look of human beings. Image of a European female (left) and an East Asian male (right) human body seen from front (upper) and back (lower). Adult human bodies photographed whose naturally-occurring pubic, body, facial, but not head hair have been deliberately removed to show anatomy.
Examples of human phenotypic variability: people with different levels of skin colors, a normal distribution of IQ scores, the tallest recorded man in history - Robert Wadlow - with his father. Human variability , or human variation , is the range of possible values for any characteristic, physical or mental , of human beings .
Human physical appearance – Look, outward phenotype Phenotype – Composite of the organism's observable characteristics or traits; List of human positions – Physical configurations of the human body; Human skeleton – Internal framework of the human body; Sex differences in humans – Difference between males and females
A person's physical characteristics can signal cues to fertility and health, [14] [15] [16] with statistical modeling studies showing that the facial shape variables that reflect aspects of physiological health, including body fat and blood pressure, also influence observers' perceptions of health. [17]
On the trunk of the body, the chest is referred to as the thoracic area. The shoulder in general is the acromial, while the curve of the shoulder is the deltoid.
For example, ~90% of the variation in human head shapes occurs within continental groups, and ~10% separates groups, with a greater variability of head shape among individuals with recent African ancestors (Relethford 2002). A prominent exception to the common distribution of physical characteristics within and among groups is skin color ...
An immutable characteristic is any physical attribute perceived as unchangeable, entrenched and innate. The term is often used to describe segments of the population that share such attributes and are contrasted with others by those attributes, and is used in human rights law to classify protected groups of people who should be protected from civil or criminal actions directed against those ...