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Human evolution
Otherwise known as anthropogeny; anything of or relating to the study of the origin and evolution of Homo sapiens as a distinct species from other hominids, great apes and placental mammals.
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Human evolution
Cognition
Archaeology; Human evolution
The process of acquiring knowledge, including perception, intuition, and reasoning.
Morph
Archaeology; Human evolution
Any of the genetic forms (individual variants) that account for polymorphism.
Optical emission spectrometry (OES)
Archaeology; Human evolution
A technique used in the analysis of artefact composition, based on the principle that electrons, when excited (i.e. heated to a high temperature), release light of a particular wavelength. The ...
Relative dating
Archaeology; Human evolution
Determination of the ordered sequence of sites, artifacts, or fossils.
Binocular vision
Archaeology; Human evolution
Overlapping fields of vision in which both eyes can focus on a distant object to produce a stereoscopic (three-dimensional) image.
