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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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ring species
Archaeology; Evolution
A situation in which two reproductively isolated populations (see reproductive isolation) living in the same region are connected by a geographic ring of populations that can ...
polyphyletic group
Archaeology; Evolution
A set of species descended from more than one common ancestor. The ultimate common ancestor of all species in the group is not a member of the polyphyletic group.
clade
Archaeology; Evolution
A set of species descended from a common ancestral species. Synonym of monophyletic group.
paraphyletic group
Archaeology; Evolution
A set of species containing an ancestral species together with some, but not all, of its descendants. The species included in the group are those that have continued to resemble ...
monophyletic group
Archaeology; Evolution
A set of species containing a common ancestor and all of its descendants, and not containing any organisms that are not the descendants of that common ancestor.
gene family
Archaeology; Evolution
A set of related genes occupying various loci in the DNA, almost certainly formed by duplication of an ancestral gene and having a recognizably similar sequence. Members of a gene ...
haplotype
Archaeology; Evolution
A set of genes at more than one locus inherited by an individual from one of its parents. It is the multi-locus analog of an allele.
Sub-categories
- Archaeobotany (69)
- Archaeology tools (308)
- Artifacts (109)
- Dig sites (82)
- Evolution (16298)
- General archaeology (5791)
- Human evolution (26719)
- Palaeoethnobotany (26)
- Zooarchaeology (28)