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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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Cenozoic
Archaeology; Evolution
The era of geologic time from 65 mya to the present, a time when the modern continents formed and modern animals and plants evolved.
orthogenesis
Archaeology; Evolution
The erroneous idea that species tend to evolve in a fixed direction because of some inherent force driving them to do so.
convergent evolution
Archaeology; Evolution
The evolution of species from different taxonomic groups toward a similar form; the development of similar characteristics by taxonomically different organisms.
Cope's rule
Archaeology; Evolution
The evolutionary increase in body size over geological time in a lineage of populations.
substitution
Archaeology; Evolution
The evolutionary replacement of one allele by another in a population.
transformism
Archaeology; Evolution
The evolutionary theory of Lamarck in which changes occur within a lineage of populations, but in which lineages do not split (i.e., no speciation occurs, at least not in the ...
Cretaceous
Archaeology; Evolution
The final geological period of the Mesozoic era that began 144 million years ago and ended 65 million years ago. The end of this period is defined most notably by the extinction ...
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- Archaeobotany (69)
- Archaeology tools (308)
- Artifacts (109)
- Dig sites (82)
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- General archaeology (5791)
- Human evolution (26719)
- Palaeoethnobotany (26)
- Zooarchaeology (28)