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However humans are acutely sensitive to variations in physical appearance for reasons of evolution.

Some people have traditionally linked some differences in personal appearance such as skeletal shape with race, such as prognathism or elongated stride (but this is a controversial and sensitive matter).

Some differences in human appearance are genetic, others are the result of age or disease, and many are the result of personal adornment.

A dandy is a man who devotes particular attention to his physical appearance.

1 Physiological differences in human physical appearance from individual to individual

• Height, weight, skin color, sexual organs, moles, hairHair is also a musical: see Hair (musical) and Hair (movie Hair is the filamentous outgrowth of the epidermis found in mammals. Hair is a characteristic of all mammals, though in some species hair is absent at certain stages of life. Hairs" are also found colorHuman beings have many variations in hair color and texture. Hair color is the result of pigmentation due to the presence of the chemicals of melanin. In general, the more melanin, the darker the hair color. In general, the color of children's and adults' and type, body shape, somatotype ( ectomorph, mesomorph , endomorph ), body deformations, mutilations and other imperfections such as amputationAmputation is the removal of a body extremity by trauma or surgery. As a surgical measure, it is used to control pain or a disease process in the affected limb, such as malignancy or gangrene. Types Types of amputation include: leg amputation of digits pas, scarScar is also a popular Disney villain from The Lion King. A scar results from the biologic process of wound repair in the skin and other tissues of the body. Thus, scarring is a natural part of the healing process. With the exception of very minor lesionss, and woundA wound is a physical trauma where the skin is torn, cut or punctured. Before any medical or paramedical evaluation, a wound is considered as minor when: it is superficial; it is away from natural orifices; there is only a minor bleeding; it was not causes. Genital modification and mutilationBoth genital modification and genital mutilation are controversial terms. Both can refer to permanent or temporary changes to the human genitals, but they are used differently by different people and to different ends; there is little consensus on their c is particularly common in some cultures.

2 Long-term physiological changes in an individual

• Aging