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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A statistic used to calculate the correlation coefficient between two variables. The covariance is calculated by taking the sum of (x - /x)(y - /x) over all pairs of values for the variables x and y, ...

Isotope

Archaeology; Human evolution

Chemically identical but anatomically different forms of an element (the number of neutrons are different so the atomic weight differs).

Paleo-

Archaeology; Human evolution

Old.

Cladogenesis

Archaeology; Human evolution

Species formation, the branching of a single lineage to form two lineages.

One gene-one enzyme hypothesis

Archaeology; Human evolution

The hypothesis, based on Beadle and Tatum's studies in biochemical genetics, that each gene controls the synthesis of one enzyme.

Formation processes

Archaeology; Human evolution

Those processes affecting the way in which archaeological materials came to be buried, and theirsubsequent history afterwards. Cultural formation processes include the deliberate or accidental ...