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1) Describe the wealth/health gradient illustrated in the film. What does it show? The wealth/health gradient that was illustrated in the film revealed that health behaviors are influenced by economic status; hence, more wealth leads to better health. The film shows that the lower the grade of employment, the higher the risk of heart disease, and every major cause of death. Researchers in the film also assert that death rate and illness correlated to individuals’ socioeconomic status even after…

after a scientist in New York got bit by a monkey while he was researching a polio vaccine. He developed slow symptoms such as paralysis of the legs, tender lymph nodes, etc. After three days, he died. Herpes B was found to be carried by rhesus macaque, as well as other Asian monkeys. The only weird thing is that people get scratched by these monkeys all the time and never get sick. I asked why and I agree when the author said that “ecology has provided opportunities, but evolution hasn’t yet…

their lives disease free. This could extend people’s lifespans by several years (depending on the disease) and, in many cases, remove debilitating side effects from medication that they would take to offset their disease. In an experiment involving macaque monkeys was performed in which the monkeys were given a neurotoxin that created the same symptoms as those exhibited as Parkinson’s Disease. Some of the monkeys then received gene therapy giving them three genes that are responsible for…

Raheleh safadel Anth 301 Professor 10/15/2015 Social Behavior Social behavior is one of the most important activities among human and non-human primates. Both human and non-human primates live in the social group and there are some bonds between various persons. There are many different social activities between human and non-human primates. These social behaviors are between different members of society. Some of these social bonds are between females and their offspring and some between…

against God or God’s Law, i.e. the way of nature itself, is undermined if there is even one instance of homosexuality in nature. Sadly, for many believers of “Divine Command Theory” and “Natural law,” there are many instances. Black swans, Japanese macaque, even Bonobos, a primate species closely related to humans, have been observed and documented to exhibit homosexual…

How do scientists explain and support the argument for biological evolution? From the recent trip to the Minnesota Zoo, labs performed in class and multiple readings these things have shown students the dynamics of evolution. Scientists, like Charles Darwin, who have focused studies on certain organisms like the Galapagos Island finches have played a large role in our knowledge today about biological evolution, natural selection and descent with modification. Over many generations and an…

for the culturally assigned behaviors for most males, it was difficult to feel fully male in American society. Being born into a military family, I was separated from the family structure commonly found to reinforce gender roles. Similar a rhesus macaques in the study by Harry and Margaret Harlow, I did not have constant male figure present in my life to teach me how a male should behave in our society (Zuk, 2013, p. 9). While the monkeys in the Harlows’ study were deprived a real mother to…

learn about basic cellular functions and their evolution, the more often it becomes possible to study key human functions in another organism, such as yeast.” After the Oxford animal laboratory had allowed a BBC film crew to film an experiment on a macaque, the United Kingdom Government’s Chief Scientific Advisor, Sir Mark Walport, has been more open to the public about the development of medical research based on testing on animals. (Telegraph Online) "People are becoming more confident and…

Hannah Hilden-Reid November 13, 2014 Caitlin: Tues 9 am Scientific Paper Analysis #3: Physiological and Behavioral Response to Weaning Conflict in Free-Ranging Primate Infants Tara M. Mandalaywala, James P. Higham, Michael Heistermann, Karen J. Parker, and Dario Maestripieri set out to test the hypothesis that maternal rejection during the weaning period elicits both psychological and energetic stress on primates. They predicted that elevated concentrations of fecal glucocorticoid metabolite…

In the article, Animals Testing and Its Gifts to Humans, by Frankie L. Trull he mentions that, “Before human trials began, the re-engineered virus was injected into the brains of macaque monkeys, whose systems operate similarly to those of humans. Since the raw polio virus often results in paralysis, such testing of the modified virus made sense--and helped demonstrate that the body's immune system would cripple brain tumors if injected…