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

Autopolyploidy

Archaeology; Human evolution

Polyploidy involving more than two chromosome sets of the same species.

Homoplasy (parallelism)

Archaeology; Human evolution

The separate appearance of a feature with the same character state in two or more species that developed independently from a different character state of the feature in the last common ancestor.

Occipital bun

Archaeology; Human evolution

A backward extension of the cranial rear in the form of a protuberance bounded by the nuchal plane below, a shaft vertical face for the occiput behind, and a flat surface above (lambdoidal ...