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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Deletion (deficiency)

Archaeology; Human evolution

A chromosomal mutation resulting in the loss of a segment of the genetic material and the genetic information contained therein from a chromosome.

Silent mutation

Archaeology; Human evolution

A mutational change resulting in a protein with a wild-type function because of an unchanged amino acid sequence.

Steroid response element (REs)

Archaeology; Human evolution

The DNA sequence to which steroid hormones will bind to activate a gene.

The study of regularities in the way in which quantities of traded items found in the archaeologicalrecord decline as the distance from the source increases. This may be plotted as a fall-off curve, ...

Sister chromatid

Archaeology; Human evolution

A chromatid derived from replication of one chromosome during interphase of the cell cycle.

Duplication

Archaeology; Human evolution

A chromosomal mutation that results in the doubling of a segment of a chromosome.

Juxtamastoid process

Archaeology; Human evolution

A name given to the process or processes just medial to the mastoid process, individually referred to as the paramastoid process and occipitomastoid crest.