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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Kyr

Archaeology; Human evolution

Kiloyears, a unit of thousands of years (100,000 years is 100 kyr).

Positional cloning

Archaeology; Human evolution

The isolation of a gene association with a genetic disease on the basis of its approximate chromosomal position.

Combinatorial gene regulation

Archaeology; Human evolution

Transcriptional control (i.e., whether a gene is active or inactive) achieved by combining relatively few regulatory proteins (negative and positive) binding to particular DNA sequences.

Gene mutation

Archaeology; Human evolution

A heritable alteration of the genetic material, usually from one allelic form to another.

Geomorphology

Archaeology; Human evolution

A subdiscipline of geography, concerned with the study of the form and development of the landscape, it includes such specialisations as sedimentology.

Cores drilled from the sea bed that provide the most coherent record of climate changes on a worldwide scale. The cores contain shells of microscopic marine organisms (foraminifera) laid down on the ...