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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
Flake (flake tools)
Archaeology; Human evolution
An unusually sharp-edged stone fragmented, struck, or pressured off of a core (a larger rock ornodule). See detached piece.
Phratry
Archaeology; Human evolution
A grouping of clans related by traditions of common descent or historical alliance based on kinship.
Ordered tetrads
Archaeology; Human evolution
A structure resulting from meiosis in which the fouor meiotic products are in an order reflecting exactly the orientation of the four chromatids at the metaphase plate in meiosis I.
Overdominance (heterozygote advantage)
Archaeology; Human evolution
Condition in which the heterozygote has higher fitness than either of the homozygotes.
Synapsis
Archaeology; Human evolution
The intimate association of homologous chromosomes brought about by the formation of a zipperlike structure along the length of the chromatids called the synaptonemal complex.
