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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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brachiopod
Archaeology; Evolution
Commonly known as "lamp shells," these marine invertebrates resemble bivalve mollusks because of their hinged shells. Brachiopods were at their greatest abundance during the ...
genetic drift
Archaeology; Evolution
Changes in the frequencies of alleles in a population that occur by chance, rather than because of natural selection.
speciation
Archaeology; Evolution
Changes in related organisms to the point where they are different enough to be considered separate species. This occurs when populations of one species are separated and adapt to ...
cephalopod
Archaeology; Evolution
Cephalopods include squid, octopi, cuttlefish, and chambered nautiluses. They are mollusks with tentacles and move by forcing water through their bodies like a jet.
mitosis
Archaeology; Evolution
Cell division. All cell division in multicellular organisms occurs by mitosis except for the special division called meiosis that generates the gametes.
Robert FitzRoy
Archaeology; Evolution
Captain of the Beagle, which took Charles Darwin on his famous voyage to South America and around the world. FitzRoy's chief mission on the Beagle was to chart the coast of South ...
heritability
Archaeology; Evolution
Broadly, the proportion of variation (more strictly, variance) in a phenotypic character in a population that is due to individual differences in genotypes. Narrowly, it is ...
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- Archaeobotany (69)
- Archaeology tools (308)
- Artifacts (109)
- Dig sites (82)
- Evolution (16298)
- General archaeology (5791)
- Human evolution (26719)
- Palaeoethnobotany (26)
- Zooarchaeology (28)