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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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leader sequence
Archaeology; Human evolution
One of three main parts of the mRNA molecule. The leader sequence is located on the 5' end of the mRNA molecule and contains the coded information that the ribosome and special ...
taphonomy
Archaeology; Human evolution
Study of the processes that effect the remains of organisms from the death of an organism through its fossilization.
bregma (b)
Archaeology; Human evolution
The point at the top of the head where the coronal and sagittal sutures of the skull meet, or where the two parietal bones meet with the frontal.
homozygous dominant
Archaeology; Human evolution
A diploid organism that has the same dominant allele for a given gene locus on both members of a homologous pair of chromosomes.
primary nondisjunction (nondisjunction)
Archaeology; Human evolution
A rare event in which sister chromatids (in mitosis) or chromosomes contained in pairing configurations (in meiosis) fail to be distributed to opposite poles.
manuport
Archaeology; Human evolution
An unmodified piece of rock known to be carried to a locality by a hominid because it could not have gotten there naturally.
acetabulum
Archaeology; Human evolution
Joint depression in the os coxa into which the head of the femur fits, the socket in the ball-in-socket hip joint. The three bones of the os coxa (ilium, ischium, pubis) meet in ...
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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)