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A normal healthy individual's body temperature is about 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. When the body senses it is too cold the hypothalamus will send signals to your muscles to shiver and create warmth to maintain homeostasis. Climates that are extremely cold come with the risk of the body going into hypothermia. This is a life threatening drop in core temperature to subnormal levels. Hypothermia occurs when the core body temperature drops to 94 degrees Fahrenheit, thus disrupting the body's ability to maintain homeostasis. There are many cultural adaptations that humans have used to adapt to this stress. One of them is drinking alcohol to keep warm. This increases blood flow to the body's extremities and provides a feeling of warmth.  Another adaptation that humans have used is insulated clothing to stay warm. In cold climates it helps the body keep in heat wearing windbreaker jackets, hats that cover the ears, mittens to cover the hands and thermals under their clothin...

The first part of this assignment asked us to engage in a conversation for fifteen minutes where we were not allowed to use any version of a symbolic language. I had my husband and my mother participate in this experiment with me. This part was fairly easy. I was more on the outside of this conversation than anything else. They talked between each other and I sat back and listened. I feel because of my absence of communication it was easy to not have to include me in the conversation. For this segment the other parties were in control of the conversation. They changed topics and asked each other questions. They even asked me a question and while it was some work to get the answer across, it only happened one time. I feel because I am a little more of an introvert, I am okay with sitting and listening in a conversation as opposed to actively being in it. For the most part I was excluded from the conversation. If we think of this as a balance of power, the party who had the ability to ...

In 1912, an amateur archaeologist by the name of Charles Dawson claimed to have found an ancient piece of a human skull digging in a gravel pit in the small town of Piltdown. He started working with Arthur Smith Woodward, England's leading geologist of the Natural History Museum. Up to this point scientists had found remains of primitive humans in France, Germany and Asia, but none in England. Charles Dawson dug up a jawbone thought to have been part of the same skull, it was a major surprise because it looked more like an ape, but the teeth were worn flat much like a human. With this discovery, they thought they had found a common ancestor of a human and an ape. In December of 1912 at a meeting for the Royal Geological Society, scientists could now see that England had found fossil remains and their ancestors could actually be the oldest of them all. They called the discovery "Piltdown Man." After finding  more fossil remains, it had silenced those who were critics. Howe...