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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.
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Human evolution
Internasal suture
Archaeology; Human evolution
The suture between the two nasal bones where they meet at the midline.
Dicentric chromosome
Archaeology; Human evolution
A chromosome with two centromeres. For example, as a result of the crossover between genes B and C in the inversion loop, one recombinant chromatid becomes stretched across the cell as the two ...
Differentiation
Archaeology; Human evolution
An aspect of development that involves the formation of different types of cells, tissues, and organs through the processes of specific regulation of gene expression.
Period
Archaeology; Human evolution
In geology, a division of an era, as the Quaternary period of the Cenozoic era.
Cytohet
Archaeology; Human evolution
The genetic condition of plant zygotes that display biparental inheritance; the term is derived from "cytoplasmically heterozygous."
Syntenic
Archaeology; Human evolution
The genes that are localised to a particular chromosome by using an experimental approach (literally "together thread"; the term is similar to linked).
Parsimony
Archaeology; Human evolution
The use of as few assumptions as possible in an explanation or theory, "Occam's razor" is an example.
