People Flashcards

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Claude Bernard

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Described internal environment (milieu interieur)- vivisection on animals

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Walter Cannon

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“The Wisdom of the Body”; coined the term “homeostasis”

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Caster Semenya

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Gold medalist not allowed to compete due to testosterone levels being too high (naturally)

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Alfred Yost

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showed that if XX or XY rabbit fetuses were castrated in utero before sexual differentiation, they would develop the ducts and external genitalia of females; Grafted a piece of testis against one ovary and showed that the testis only produced local effects

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