Human evolution

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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Telophase II

Archaeology; Human evolution

The last stage of meiosis II during which a nuclear membrane forms around each set of chromosomes, and cytokinesis takes place.

Paleogene

Archaeology; Human evolution

Earliest division of the Tertiary including the Paleocene, Eocene, and Oligocene.

Small nuclear RNA (snRNA)

Archaeology; Human evolution

Found only in eukaryotes, one of four major classes of RNA molecules produced by transcription, snRNAs are used in the processing of pre-mRNA molecules.

F-pili (sex pili)

Archaeology; Human evolution

Hairlike cell surface components produced by cells containing the F factor, which allow the physicalunion of F+ and F- cells or Hfr and F- cells to take place.

Y-intercept

Archaeology; Human evolution

In a regression analysis, the value of y when x is zero.

An excavation technique developed by Mortimer Wheeler from the work of Pitt-Rivers, involving the retaining of intact baulks of earth between excavation grid squares, so that different layers can be ...