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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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double fertilization
Archaeology; Human evolution
An event found only in the life cycle of flowering plants. It is the fusing of the sperm cell with the two nuclei of the gametophyte's central cell to form the cell that will ...
negative feedback
Archaeology; Human evolution
In systems thinking, this is a process which acts to counter or "dampen" the potentially disruptive effects of external inputs; it acts as a stabilizing mechanism.
signal hypothesis
Archaeology; Human evolution
The hypothesis that the secretion of proteins from a cell occurs through the binding of a hydrophobic amino terminal extension to the membrane and the subsequent removal and ...
soft hammer
Archaeology; Human evolution
This usually refers to a billet but may include hammerstones of very soft materials such as mudstone.
mating types
Archaeology; Human evolution
A genic system in which two sexes are morphologically indistinguishable but carry different alleles an will mate.
regression
Archaeology; Human evolution
A statistical analysis assessing the association between two variables.
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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)