Anthropology. Biochemical personality (most important)

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30. BIOCHEMICAL INDIVIDUALITY

Each person has a unique genotype, which in the process of growth and development is realized in the phenotype under the influence and in interaction with a unique combination of environmental factors. The result of this interaction is manifested not only in the variety of features of physique and other features that we have considered. Each person has a composition of biologically active substances and compounds peculiar only to him - proteins, hormones, the percentage of which and their activity change throughout life and demonstrate various kinds of cyclicity. In terms of the scale of variability, it is the biochemical individuality that is primary, while external manifestations are only a weak reflection of it.

The concept of biochemical individuality is based on similar data on the exceptional diversity of a person’s biochemical status and the role of this special aspect of variability in the vital processes of the body under normal conditions and in the development of various pathologies. The development of the problem largely owes to the activities of the school of the American biochemist R. Williams, and in Russia to the activities of E. Khrisanfova and her students. Biologically active substances determine many aspects of human life - the rhythm of cardiac activity, the intensity of digestion, resistance to certain environmental influences and even mood.

Based on the data of numerous studies, the possibility of using a biotypological (constitutional) approach to the study of human hormonal status has been established:

▪ the reality of the existence of individual endocrine types of a person is substantiated (a relatively small number of occurring models of the endocrine formula compared to their possible number);

▪ types of endocrine constitution have a fairly clear genetic basis;

▪ the most pronounced correlations between different systems of endocrine signs characterize extreme variants of hormonal secretion;

▪ these variants are quite clearly associated with extreme manifestations of morphological constitutional types (according to different schemes);

▪ Finally, the hormonal basis of different types of constitution was established.

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