Archaeology

Archaeology

The scientific study of physical remains, whether monuments, artifacts or relics of past human life, cultures or activities.

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constitutive heterochromatin

Archaeology; Human evolution

Condensed chromatin that is always genetically inactive, and is found at homolgous sites on chromosome pairs.

chain-terminating codon

Archaeology; Human evolution

One of three codons for which no normal tRNA molecule exists with an appropriate anticodon. A nonsense codon in an mRNA specifies the termination of polypeptide synthesis.

quantitative genetics

Archaeology; Human evolution

Study of the inhereitance of quantitative traits.

supramastoid

Archaeology; Human evolution

The pneumatized region on the temporal bone just above the mastoid process base. It marks the backward extension of the root of the zygomatic process of the temporal.

coefficient of variation (CV)

Archaeology; Human evolution

A dimensionless measure of relative variability, designed to allow comparisons of variation for samples with different average sizes, calculated as the ratio of the standard ...