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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Knuckle-walking

Archaeology; Human evolution

A type of quadrupedal walking used by chimpanzees or gorillas, in which the forearms rest on the dorsal surface of the middle phalanges of the hands.

Posterior tooth loading

Archaeology; Human evolution

Force placed on the postcanine teeth, usually during mastication.

Subfossil

Archaeology; Human evolution

Recent, often only partially fossilized, remains often from the Holocene or historical times.

Euploid

Archaeology; Human evolution

The condition in which an organism or cell has one complete set of chromosomes, or an exact multiple of complete sets.

Prognathous

Archaeology; Human evolution

Forward protrusion of the facial region, as a whole or in part (see alveolar prognathism), (cf. orthognathous).

Branch-point sequence

Archaeology; Human evolution

The consenus sequence in mammalian cells, YNCURA, (where Y is a pyrimidine, R is a purine, and N is any base) to which the free 5' end of the intron loops and binds to the A nucleotide in the ...

Termination factors (release factors; RF)

Archaeology; Human evolution

The specific proteins in polypeptide synthesis (translation) that read the chain termination codons and then initiate a series of specific events to terminate polypeptide synthesis.