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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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tuberculosis

Archaeology; Evolution

An infection of the lungs, accompanied by fever and a loss of appetite, caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

heterozygote

Archaeology; Evolution

An individual having two different alleles at a genetic locus. Compare with homozygote.

homozygote

Archaeology; Evolution

An individual having two copies of the same allele at a genetic locus. Also sometimes applied to larger genetic entities, such as a whole chromosome; a homozygote is then an ...

polyploid

Archaeology; Evolution

An individual containing more than two sets of genes and chromosomes.

reinforcement

Archaeology; Evolution

An increase in reproductive isolation between incipient species by natural selection. Natural selection can directly favor only an increase in prezygotic isolation; reinforcement ...

species

Archaeology; Evolution

An important classificatory category, which can be variously defined by the biological species concept, cladistic species concept, ecological species concept, phenetic species ...

belemnite

Archaeology; Evolution

An extinct marine invertebrate that was related to squid, octopi, and chambered nautiluses. We know from the fossil record that belemnites were common in the Jurassic period and ...