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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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germination
Archaeology; Evolution
The initial stages in the growth of a seed to form a seedling. The embryonic shoot (plumule) and embryonic root (radicle) emerge and grow upward and downward, respectively. Food ...
evo-devo
Archaeology; Evolution
The informal name for 'evolutionary developmental biology', a branch of evolutionary studies that seeks to contribute insights from genetics, embryology and microbiology to help ...
reproductive character displacement
Archaeology; Evolution
The increased reproductive isolation between two closely related species when they live in the same geographic region (sympatry) as compared with when they live in separate ...
character displacement
Archaeology; Evolution
The increased difference between two closely related species where they live in the same geographic region (sympatry) as compared with where they live in different geographic ...
blending inheritance
Archaeology; Evolution
The historically influential but factually erroneous theory that organisms contain a blend of their parents' hereditary factors and pass that blend on to their offspring. Compare ...
wild type
Archaeology; Evolution
The genotype or phenotype, out of a set of genotypes or phenotypes of a species, that is found in nature. The expression is mainly used in lab genetics to distinguish rare mutant ...
Sub-categories
- Archaeobotany (69)
- Archaeology tools (308)
- Artifacts (109)
- Dig sites (82)
- Evolution (16298)
- General archaeology (5791)
- Human evolution (26719)
- Palaeoethnobotany (26)
- Zooarchaeology (28)