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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Osteodontokeratic

Archaeology; Human evolution

Artefacts made of bone, tooth, or horn, as in the Osteodontokeratic "culture" of the Makapansgat australopithecines.

CDNA

Archaeology; Human evolution

DNA copies made from an RNA template catalysed by the enzyme reverse transcriptase.

Wahlund effect

Archaeology; Human evolution

Internally subdivided species have more homozygosity than an equivalent fused population would, creating more phenotypically expressed variation.

Palaeolithic

Archaeology; Human evolution

Literally the Old Stone Age, the period when humans relied on a stone technology to sustain a scavenging/hunting/gathering adaptation. The archaeological period before 10,000 BC.

Olduwan industry

Archaeology; Human evolution

One of the earliest toolkits, comprising flake and pebble tools, used by hominids in the Olduvai Gorge, East Africa.

One of the eukaryotic promotor elements found in approximately 80 base pairs upstream of the initiation site, but it can function at a number of other locations and in either orientation with respect ...

Pribnow box

Archaeology; Human evolution

A part of the promoter sequence in prokaryotic genomes that is located about 10 base pairs upstream from the transcription starting point. The consensus sequence for the Pribnow box is TATAAT. The ...