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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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nervous system
Archaeology; Evolution
An organ system, composed of a network of cells called neurons, that allows an animal to monitor its internal and external environment, and to move voluntarily or in response to ...
Yoel Rak
Archaeology; Evolution
An Israeli paleoanthropologist and anatomist whose research interests include facial morphology of fossil hominids. Rak was part of the team that found a 2. 3-million-year-old ...
artifact
Archaeology; Evolution
An object made by humans that has been preserved and can be studied to learn about a particular time period.
contrivance
Archaeology; Evolution
An object or characteristic used or modified to do something different from its usual use.
mollusk
Archaeology; Evolution
An invertebrate that has a fleshy, muscular body. The phylum Mollusca includes snails, bivalves, squids, and octopuses.
trilobite
Archaeology; Evolution
An extinct marine arthropod common from the Cambrian to Permian eras (570-245 million years ago). Trilobite fossils are abundant in rocks of this period. Trilobites were 10-675 mm ...
epistasis
Archaeology; Evolution
An interaction between the genes at two or more loci, such that the phenotype differs from at would be expected if the loci were expressed independently.
Sub-categories
- Archaeobotany (69)
- Archaeology tools (308)
- Artifacts (109)
- Dig sites (82)
- Evolution (16298)
- General archaeology (5791)
- Human evolution (26719)
- Palaeoethnobotany (26)
- Zooarchaeology (28)