inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees" (同)scrubby, stunted
relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous; "air is thin at high altitudes"; "a thin soup"; "skimmed milk is much thinner than whole milk"; "thin oil"
lacking excess flesh; "you cant be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare (同)lean
(of sound) lacking resonance or volume; "a thin feeble cry"
lacking spirit or sincere effort; "a thin smile"
lose thickness; become thin or thinner
make thin or thinner; "Thin the solution"
of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section; "thin wire"; "a thin chiffon blouse"; "a thin book"; "a thin layer of paint"
Human physical appearance is the outward phenotype or look of human beings.
Human body
There are infinite variations in human phenotypes, though society reduces the variability to distinct categories. Physical appearance of humans, in particular those attributes which are regarded as important for physical attractiveness, are believed by anthropologists to significantly affect the development of personality and social relations. Humans are acutely sensitive to their physical appearance.[1] Some differences in human appearance are genetic, others are the result of age, lifestyle or disease, and many are the result of personal adornment.
Some people have linked some differences, with ethnicity, such as skeletal shape, prognathism or elongated stride. Different cultures place different degrees of emphasis on physical appearance and its importance to social status and other phenomena.
Contents
1Factors affecting physical appearance
1.1Physiological differences
1.2Long-term physiological changes
1.3Short-term physiological changes
1.4Clothing, personal effects, and intentional body modifications
1.5Other functional objects, temporarily attached to the body
2See also
3References
Factors affecting physical appearance
Various factors are considered relevant in relation to the physical appearance of humans.
Physiological differences
Humans are distributed across the globe with the exception of Antarctica, and form a variable species. In adults, average weight varies from around 40 kilos for the smallest and most lightly built tropical people to around 80 kilos for the heavier northern peoples.[2] Size also varies between the sexes, the sexual dimorphism in humans being more pronounced than that of chimpanzees, but less than the dimorphism found in gorillas.[3] The colouration of skin, hair and eyes also varies considerably, with darker pigmentation domination in tropical climates and lighter in polar regions.
Height, body weight, skin tone, body hair, sexual organs, moles, birthmarks, freckles, hair color, hair texture, eye color, eye shape (see epicanthic fold), nose shape (see nasal bridge), ears shape (see earlobes), body shape
Body deformations, mutilations and other variations such as amputations, scars, burns and wounds.
Long-term physiological changes
Aging
Hair loss
Short-term physiological changes
Blushing, crying, fainting, hiccup, yawning, laughing, stuttering, sexual arousal, sweating, shivering, nose bleeding, skin color changes due to sunshine or frost.
Clothing, personal effects, and intentional body modifications
clothing, including headgear and footwear; some clothes alter or mold the shape of the body (e.g. corset, support pantyhose, bra). As for footwear, high heels make a person look taller.
style and colour of haircut (see also mohawk, dreadlocks, braids, ponytail, wig, hairpin, facial hair, beard and moustache)
cosmetics, stage makeup, body paintings, permanent makeup
body modifications, such as body piercings, tattoos, scarification, subdermal implants
plastic surgery
decorative objects (jewelry) such as a necklaces, bracelets, rings, earrings
medical or body shape altering devices (e.g., tooth braces, bandages, casts, hearing aids, cervical collar, crutches, contact lenses of different colours, glasses, gold teeth). For example, the same person's appearance can be quite different, depending on whether they use any of the aforementioned modifications.
exercises, for example, bodybuilding
Other functional objects, temporarily attached to the body
Capes
Goggles
Hair ornaments
Hats and caps
Headdresses
Headphones/Handsfree phone headset
Jewelry
Masks
Prosthetic limbs
Prosthetic genitals
Sunglasses
Watch
See also
Wikimedia Commons has media related to people.
Beauty
Biometrics
Body image
Dress code
Common human variations
Eigenface
Face perception
Facial symmetry
Fashion
Female body shape
Hair coloring
Nudity
Sexual attraction
Sexual capital
Sexual selection
Social role of hair
Somatotype
Vanity
References
^Anderson-Fye, EP (2012). Cash, Thomas F. (ed.). "Anthropological Perspectives on Physical Appearance and Body Image" (PDF). Body Image and Its Disorder in Anthropology. 1. Academic Press: 19. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-384925-0.00003-1. Retrieved August 9, 2018. [Cases] of immigration have repeatedly shown that if a person who is obese believes that his or her body is beyond individual control but is placed into a medical system that assumes individual rational actors in its treatments, adherence is likely to be low and those treatments are ineffective...[Young] ethnic Fijian women associated the thin body ideal with a particular lifestyle that they found desirable
^"Anthropometric Reference Data for Children and Adults: United States, 2003–2006" (PDF). Retrieved 9 March 2014.
^Shea, Brian T. (1985). "The ontogeny of sexual dimorphism in the African apes". American Journal of Primatology. 8 (2): 183–188. doi:10.1002/ajp.1350080208.
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