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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.
Industry: Archaeology
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Human evolution
Cognitive archaeology
Archaeology; Human evolution
The study of past ways of thought and symbolic structures from natural remains.
Burin
Archaeology; Human evolution
A chisel-like stone tool for engraving bone, wood, horn, or soft-stone.
Reverse mutation (reversion)
Archaeology; Human evolution
A mutational change from a mutant allele back to a wild-type allele.
Neutral evolution
Archaeology; Human evolution
Genetic changes that do not affect the fitness of the individual or its offspring.
Kinship
Archaeology; Human evolution
Relationships between people that are based on real or imagined descent or (sometimes) marriage.
Pleiotropic
Archaeology; Human evolution
Genes that influence the expression of more than one trait.
Transport control
Archaeology; Human evolution
Regulating the number of transcripts that exit the nucleus to the cytoplasm.
