Human body
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Human body is entire physical structure of an organism of human being. The human body consists of a head, neck, torso, two arms and two legs. The average height of an adult human is about 1.6 m (5 to 6 feet) tall. This size is largely determined by genes. Body type and body composition are significantly influenced by postnatal factors such as diet, exercise.
Human body is often called "body". The body of dead person is called "corpse" or "cadaver".
[edit] Natural sciences
The human body consists of systems, organs, tissues and cells. Human anatomy studies structures and systems of the human body. The study of the workings of the human body is called physiology. Ecology focuses on the distribution and abundance of the bodies and how the distribution and abundance are affected by interactions between bodies and its environment.
Combination of individual atoms, molecules, polypeptides, cells in human body, is a source of emergence.
[edit] Social psychology
The human body can be used as a media of human communication. Many people, consciously or unconsciously, send and receive non-verbal signals all the time. Body language forms part of paralanguage.
The human body
