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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Adaptive valleys (cf. adaptive peaks)

Archaeology; Human evolution

Stable morphological configurations based on effective genetic compromises that maximise overall fitness in specific adaptive niches, envisioned as a series of dips across a fitness plateau.

Grooming

Archaeology; Human evolution

Cleaning the body surface by licking, biting, picking with fingers or claws, or other kinds of manipulation.

Semitendinosus

Archaeology; Human evolution

One of the hamstring muscles, which extend the thigh and flex the leg.

Multivariate statistics

Archaeology; Human evolution

Statistical procedures that are designed to treat simultaneously (and to assess relationships among) several variables per object.

Cis-dominance

Archaeology; Human evolution

The phenomenon of a gene or DNA sequence controlling only genes that are on the same contiguous piece of DNA.

Adenine (A)

Archaeology; Human evolution

A purine base found in RNA and DNA; in double-stranded DNA adenine pairs with the pyrimidine thymine.

An integral protein membrane of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) to which the nascent polypeptide-signal recognition particle (SRP)-ribosome complex binds to facilitate the binding of the polypeptide's ...