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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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prehensile

Archaeology; Human evolution

Capable of grasping.

fertility

Archaeology; Human evolution

Number of offspring produced over a given interval or lifetime.

spatulate

Archaeology; Human evolution

Spade-like, referring to upper incisors that are broad, often with marginal ridges along the edges of their internal surface.

land-use pattern

Archaeology; Human evolution

The pattern found in the way the traces of hominid activities are distributed across the landscape.

dihybrid cross

Archaeology; Human evolution

A cross between two dihybrids of the same type. Individuals that are heterozygous for two pairs of alleles at two different loci are called dihybrid.

transduction

Archaeology; Human evolution

A process by which bacteriophages mediate the transfer of bacterial genetic information from one bacterium (the donor) to another (the recipient); a process whereby pieces of ...

aminoacyl-trna synthetase

Archaeology; Human evolution

An enzyme that catalyzes the addition of a specific amino acid to a tRNA molecule. Since there are 20 amino acids, there are also 20 synthetases.