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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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Thomas Henry Huxley
Archaeology; Evolution
British intellect, photographer, and contemporary of Darwin. He was the first to apply the theory of natural selection to humanity to explain the course of human evolution.
Geerat J. Vermeij
Archaeology; Evolution
Biologist at the Center for Population Biology of the University of California, Davis, and author of Privileged Hands: A Scientific Life. Vermeij, blind since age 3, combines ...
Peter and Rosemary Grant
Archaeology; Evolution
Biologists whose long-term research focuses on finches in the Galapagos Islands, and the evolutionary impact of climatic and environmental changes on their populations. They live ...
Geoffrey Miller
Archaeology; Evolution
Author of The Mating Mind, Miller is known for his research on evolutionary psychology and sexual selection. He believes that our minds evolved not only as survival machines, but ...
coadaptation
Archaeology; Evolution
Beneficial interaction between (1) a number of genes at different loci within an organism, (2) different parts of an organism, or (3) organisms belonging to different species.
vestigial
Archaeology; Evolution
Any structures that have been greatly reduced in size and function over evolutionary time to the extent that they now appear to have little or no current function.
Raymond Dart
Archaeology; Evolution
Australian-born South African anatomist and anthropologist (1893-1988). In 1924 he described a fossil skull collected near Taung in South Africa, naming it Australopithecus ...
Sub-categories
- Archaeobotany (69)
- Archaeology tools (308)
- Artifacts (109)
- Dig sites (82)
- Evolution (16298)
- General archaeology (5791)
- Human evolution (26719)
- Palaeoethnobotany (26)
- Zooarchaeology (28)