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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Gregarious

Archaeology; Human evolution

Social orientation to behavior, living in regular social groups.

Jugular foramen

Archaeology; Human evolution

The opening formed by the temporal notches on the petrous temporal and occipital bones.

The genealogical relations between genes show that all of the extant varieties of a gene must have originated in a single gene; looking from the present to the past, we can say that they descend from ...

Porion

Archaeology; Human evolution

The uppermost point in the margin of the auditory meatus; the point which, with the lowest point on the orbit, defines the Frankfort Horizontal.

Dental eruption

Archaeology; Human evolution

A continuous process in which teeth emerge out of their crypts (alveolar eruption), through the gums (gingival eruption), and into occlusion with the opposing teeth of the opposite jaw (occlusal ...