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Biological Variation and Race

Across
What really explains human variation as opposed to race, the regions and conditions under which individuals live that cause them to adapt to better survive there.
A geographic continuum in the variation of a specific phenotype, such that phenotypes grade into one another.
A pseudoscience that uses measurements of the skull to predict personality traits and behavior and has been used in justifications of racism.
English biologist best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.
Carrying two copies of the allele would be lethal, but carrying just one copy gives the individual increased resistance to some other affliction.
Classified humans into races based on their "essences" to organize God's creations.
The characteristics that the individual expresses physically.
Down
The animals on which Darwin conducted his observations that led him to
The environmental pressures that favor some individuals over others, allowing those individuals survive longer and reproduce to pass their alleles on to the next generation.
A form of a gene.
The process by which individuals achieve a beneficial adjustment to their environment.
A social construct that should be based on the possession of shared genetic material, but instead has come to encompass a set of shared phenotypical traits with negative social repercussions.
The change in allele frequency over successive generations.
A genetic disease that is more common in Ashkenazi Jews that kills offspring that carry two copies of the allele by the time they are four.
An organism's complete set of heritable genes.