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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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).