Chapter five was about the Skeletal System. We learned most of the names of the bones and above are just a handful of them. The ones I know I learned quickly was humerus, radius, ulna, tibia, fibula, femur and frontal bone. The frontal bone is in the skull along with many others. who would of know you have more than one bone in your skull? Especially in your face! There are so many bones that make up your face it's crazy! We also learned about the spine and how there are different vertebras. ANd i knew that there were many bones in you hand but my favorite one and this was also one i learned quickly is the pisiform which is on the side whre your ulna is. Anyways I really enjoyed this chapter.

What is your take away lesson from Dead Men Do Tell Tales? Could you be a forensic anthropologist? Why or why not?

I learned quiet a bit from Dead Men Do Tell Tales. Before Dead Men i knew nothing at all about anthroplogist and forensic. This book really opened my eyes to seeing what other types of professions and I think I could see myself being one. From what I read i can tell that a forensic anthropologist needs to pay close attention to every detail to a dead body when diagnosing the cause of death or assisanting in a  murder case. The author of the book gave a lot of detail to each case in the book and i liked how he would try to put himself in the murder's shoes and the victims. One crime that stood out to me the most was actually a quote I had picked out for Lit Circle. It was when a child choked to death because his parent was punishing his by inhaling pepper. Although there is a lot of disturbing deaths, I would still consider this profession for my career. I would be able to deal withthis because in the end i know i would be helping to catch the murders of the vitcims.

Pick three factors that can change your heart rate. How do they change your heart rate? (i.e. faster, stronger, slower, weaker) For each give another system affected by the change in heart rate.

Three factors that can change your heart rate are heat and cold, emotional stress, and exercise. Heat will increase someone's heart beat. An example of heat is a fever and thatwould not only affect your heart rate but your nervous system.  When the body becomes cold your heart rate willl decrease. An example of emoitional stress is when someone has been scared. When someone has been frightened  their heart rate will increase but once they stop being scared their heart rate will return back to normal. Exercise would change someone's heart rate because it is putting physical stress on there body requiring that the blood get circulated faster. Therefore someone's heart rate would increase during exercise and there breathing would increase as well meaning that their respiratory system would also be affected.

Based upon this week's labs why is it hard for a fit person to get an exercise benefit?

People who are in shape would have a hard time to get an exercise benefit because they are always active. It would take longer for them to become out of breath and therefore it would take longer for them to get there heart beat going faster. A fit person would need to run for a long period of time otherwise there would be no benefit due to the lack of an increased heart rate. The point of the lab was to experince this ourselfs and test our hypothesis. For some people who are in shape it took them 15 to 20 mintues to get their heart rate to increase in speed.

What part of Dead Men has interested you the most so far?

So far I have found Chapter 5 interesting because it is about dismemberment of the human body. It's really nuts to think about how people actually take the time to cut pieces of the body and destroy it. This chapter actually relates to something that has happened this week. This week the police have been trying to peice back together a body that was dismembered near the Hollywood sign. Anyways back to the book, I think it's interesting the way the author would put himself into the victims place and then try to slove the murders like that. Not only does he put himself inthe victims shoes but also the murder's in order to try to figure out what they were thinking when commiting the crime. I notice he really does find his career choice interesting and he puts in a lot of effort to figure out each of his cases.

Mink vs. Human

Humans and minks have similar muscles. Yet, minks have more muscles than humans do. Mink's have a lot more muscles in their necks than humans and because they have smaller bodies there muscles are more together. So because the mink's muscles are more compacted it makes them look like they have 10x more muscle then they already do. One muscle that minks do not have is thumb ones because mink's do not have thumbs. The muscles that they do have in common with humans is external and internal obliques, they have abdominal muscles and mink's pectoralis major/ minor are also on their chest just like human's. We also have similar leg, arm and shoulder muscles.

shapes of muscles BOW #11

  Human muscles are very similar to mink muscles in the way they are shaped. Obviously they would be smaller but still very similar considering that the mink is not human.  For example the gluteus maximus muscle is similar to a humans muscles justit is slightly positioned differently. The pectoralis minor in the mink has a smaller bottom, with a wide to and resembles   the multipennate muscle in humans. The mink has a teres major subscapularis which is located on the chest and looks like a square. The mink's muscle looks like the human's  convergent muscle that also looks like a square.