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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deduction

Archaeology; Human evolution

A process of reasoning by which more specific consequences are inferred by rigorous argument from more general propositions.

ribonuclease (RNase)

Archaeology; Human evolution

An enzyme that catalyzes the degradation of RNA to nucleotides.

selection differential

Archaeology; Human evolution

In natural and artificial selection, the difference between the mean phenotype of the selected parents and the mean phenotype of the unselected population.

roll-out

Archaeology; Human evolution

See hinge termination.

signal sequence

Archaeology; Human evolution

The hydrophobic, amino terminal extension found on proteins that are secreted from a cell. The amino terminus (extension) is removed and degraded in the cisternal space of the endoplasmic reticulum.