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Archaeology
The scientific study of physical remains, whether monuments, artifacts or relics of past human life, cultures or activities.
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gestation
Archaeology; Evolution
The period in animals bearing live young (especially mammals) from the fertilization of the egg and its implantation into the wall of the uterus until the birth of the young ...
plan of nature
Archaeology; Evolution
The philosophical theory that nature is organized according to a plan. It has been influential in classification, and is a kind of idealism.
idealism
Archaeology; Evolution
The philosophical theory that there are fundamental non-material "ideas," "plans," or "forms" underlying the phenomena we observe in nature. It has been historically influential ...
founder effect
Archaeology; Evolution
The loss of genetic variation when a new colony is formed by a very small number of individuals from a larger population.
electrophoresis
Archaeology; Evolution
The method of distinguishing entities according to their motility in an electric field. In evolutionary biology, it has been mainly used to distinguish different forms of ...
Mendelian inheritance
Archaeology; Evolution
The mode of inheritance of all diploid species, and therefore of nearly all multicellular organisms. Inheritance is controlled by genes, which are passed on to the offspring in ...
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- Archaeobotany (69)
- Archaeology tools (308)
- Artifacts (109)
- Dig sites (82)
- Evolution (16298)
- General archaeology (5791)
- Human evolution (26719)
- Palaeoethnobotany (26)
- Zooarchaeology (28)