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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Deoxyribonucleotide

Archaeology; Human evolution

The basic building blocks of DNA, consisting of a sugar (deoxyribose), a base, and a phosphate.

Pressure flaking

Archaeology; Human evolution

The removal of a detached piece from an objective piece by pressing rather than by percussion.

Heterozygote

Archaeology; Human evolution

A form of a polymorphism controlled by different alleles at a locus.

Vaginal process

Archaeology; Human evolution

A small downward projecting open cylinder on the petrous pyramid of the temporal, to the inside and in front of the mastoid process, that holds the styloid process.