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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Human evolution

(1) A mode of descent reckoning where all descendants of an apical ancestor/ancestress through any combination of male or female links are included (2) Synonymous with bilateral or consanguineal as ...

Heritability

Archaeology; Human evolution

A measure of the extent to which a feature is inherited; that proportion of variation of a trait in a population that is due to the variation of genotypes.

Multiplier effect

Archaeology; Human evolution

A term used in systems thinking to describe the process by which changes in one field of human activity (subsytem) sometimes act to promote changes in other fields (subsystems) and in turn act on the ...

Curated behaviour

Archaeology; Human evolution

Behaviours or strategies reflected in the archaeological record showing foresight and planning through repairs, recycling, and reuse (cf. expedient behavior).