What is Human body?
[[File:Da Vinci Vitruve Luc Viatour (cropped).jpg|thumb|Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man]] The '''human body''' is the [[body]] of a [[person]]. It is the [[physical]] structure of a person. The body is a thing that can be hurt or killed. Its functions are stopped by [[death]]. You need your muscles and your joints to move. == Study of the human body == [[File:Stomach colon rectum diagram numbered.svg|alt=|thumb|Stomach colon rectum diagram numbered]] Some people [[Research|study]] the human body. They look at where it is different from, or the same as, other [[animal]]s' bodies. These animals can be alive today. Or they can be [[extinct]] animals like other [[hominid]]s. (Hominids are [[primate]]s that are close to humans. [[Neanderthal]]s and ''[[Homo erectus]]'' were hominids.) Some people study how the human body works and lives in its [[environment]]. Some people study what people think about their body. Artists study how to draw or paint the human body. == Fields of study == Many different fields of study look at the human: * [[Biology]] is a field of [[science]]. It studies living things. It looks at how the human body works. It studies how the human body came from [[evolution]]. It studies how [[genetics]] makes the human body. ** [[Anatomy]] studies the parts of the body and how they work together. ** [[Ecology]] studies the environment including how humans affect it. *[[Physical anthropology]] is a field of science. It compares humans to other [[hominid]]s. It also studies all other hominid bodies. They look at how [[human]]s and [[chimpanzee]]s are the same or different. * [[Psychology]] is a field of [[medicine]]. It looks at how people think and feel. The [[brain]] is part of the body. How we think and feel comes from the brain. So psychologists study the body. They study how the brain lets us be who we are. * [[Religion]] also talks about the body. Some religions see the body as where the [[soul]] lives. Some see the body as like a [[church]]. This is because a church is where people [[worshi