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  2. Gender symbol - Wikipedia

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    The combined male-female symbol ⚥ is used to represent androgyne people; [17] when additionally combined with the female ♀ and male ♂ symbols to create the sumbol ⚧, it indicates gender inclusivity, [citation needed] though it is also used as a transgender symbol. [18] [19] [17] The male-with-stroke symbol ⚦ is used for transgender ...

  3. Man - Wikipedia

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    The Mars symbol (♂) is a common symbol that represents the male sex. [87] The symbol is identical to the planetary symbol of Mars. [88] It was first used to denote sex by Carl Linnaeus in 1751. [89] The symbol is sometimes seen as a stylized representation of the shield and spear of the Roman god Mars.

  4. Human branding - Wikipedia

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    Human branding or stigmatizing is the process by which a mark, usually a symbol or ornamental pattern, is burned into the skin of a living person, with the intention of the resulting scar making it permanent. This is performed using a hot or very cold branding iron.

  5. Gender - Wikipedia

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    Gender symbols intertwined. The red (left) is the female Venus symbol. The blue (right) represents the male Mars symbol.. Gender includes the social, psychological, cultural and behavioral aspects of being a man, woman, or other gender identity.

  6. Homunculus - Wikipedia

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    The homunculus is commonly used today in scientific disciplines such as psychology as a teaching or memory tool to describe the distorted scale model of a human drawn or sculpted to reflect the relative space human body parts occupy on the somatosensory cortex (the sensory homunculus) and the motor cortex (the motor homunculus).

  7. Vitruvian Man - Wikipedia

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    In the human body, the central point is the navel. If a man is placed flat on his back, with his hands and feet extended, and a compass centered at his navel, his fingers and toes will touch the circumference of a circle thereby described. And just as the human body yields a circular outline, so too a square may be found from it.

  8. Happy Human - Wikipedia

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    The Happy Human is an icon that has been adopted as an international symbol of secular humanism. [1] Created by Dennis Barrington, the figure was the winning design in a competition arranged by Humanists UK (formerly the British Humanist Association) in 1965. [ 1 ]

  9. Male - Wikipedia

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    The symbol of the Roman god Mars (god of war) is often used to represent the male sex. It also stands for the planet Mars and is the alchemical symbol for iron.. Male (symbol: ♂) is the sex of an organism that produces the gamete (sex cell) known as sperm, which fuses with the larger female gamete, [1] [2] [3] or ovum, in the process of fertilisation.