Human Variability - Common Human Variations

Common Human Variations

  • Sexual orientation (asexual, bisexual, heterosexual, homosexual, pansexual, polysexual)
  • Human genetic variation
    • Sex (Male, female, see also intersex, transgender)
    • Race
    • Skin or eye coloring, complexion
    • Hair color, baldness, hirsutism, body hair
    • Supernumerary body part (such as Polydactylism, Supernumerary nipples, Hyperdontia) or missing body parts (such as Hypogenesis)
    • Cleft lip and Cleft palate
  • Body shape and size
    • Height
      • Shortness, dwarfism, Little people
      • Tallness, gigantism
    • Body type/Somatotype, thinness, obesity
  • Motor skills, handedness, dexterity
  • Physical disabilities
    • Amputation, loss of limbs or limb function
    • Blindness, color blindness
    • Deafness, tone deafness
    • Muteness
    • Diseases and defects of other organ systems
  • Reproductive attributes
    • virginity
    • fertility
    • parenthood
  • Human development
    • age
    • childhood
    • puberty/adolescence
    • menopause
  • Other aspects of human physical appearance
    • attractiveness (highly subjective, variable, and impermanent)
    • acquired variability in physical appearance
      • body modification
  • Psychological and personality traits
    • Intelligence, spatial aptitude
    • Temperament, introversion, extroversion, impulsiveness, risk-taking
    • Developmental disability, cognitive disability, social disability
    • Emotional stability, mental illness
  • Musical ability
  • Creative ability

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