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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
Hinge termination
Archaeology; Human evolution
The distal end of a flake that is rounded or blunted.
Landscape archaeology
Archaeology; Human evolution
The study of individual features including settlements seen as single components within the broader perspective of the patterning of human activity over a wide area.
Plesiomorphic
Archaeology; Human evolution
A characteristic whose form is like the ancestral condition.
Interstadial
Archaeology; Human evolution
A warmer interval between stadials within a major glaciation.
Evolution
Archaeology; Human evolution
Genetic change, change in a population's gene pool from generation to generation (Darwin's descent with modification).
Affinity
Archaeology; Human evolution
Relationship by marriage. May include the relationship between corporate groups linked by marriage between their members.
Parapatric speciation
Archaeology; Human evolution
The divergence of two neighbouring populations, while meeting in a contact zone, until they become two different species.
