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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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plantigrady
Archaeology; Human evolution
A stance or locomotion in which the body is positioned so that the palms and soles point downward.
drift (genetic drift)
Archaeology; Human evolution
Changes in gene frequencies due to random or stochastic variation and not the result of selection, mutation, or genic exchanges. Drift changes are most prominent in small ...
ribose
Archaeology; Human evolution
The pentose sugar component of the nucleotide building block of RNA.
chiasma
Archaeology; Human evolution
A cross-shaped structure formed during crossing-over and visible during the diplonema stage of meiosis.
chromosome walking
Archaeology; Human evolution
A process to identify adjacent clones in a genomic library. In chromosome walking, a piece of DNA is used to probe a genomic library to find an overlapping clone; then a piece of ...
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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)