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Evolution
Of or pertaining to the change in the genetic composition of a population during successive generations, as a result of natural selection acting on the genetic variation among individuals, and resulting in the development of new species.
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Hardy-Weinberg principle
Archaeology; Evolution
In population genetics, the idea that if a population experienced no selection, no mutation, no migration, no genetic drift, and random mating, then the frequency of each allele and the frequencies ...
monkey trial
Archaeology; Evolution
In 1925, John Scopes was convicted and fined $100 for teaching evolution in his Dayton, Tenn. , classroom in the first highly publicized trial concerning the teaching of evolution. The press reported ...
de facto
Archaeology; Evolution
In fact; in reality. Something which exists or occurs de facto is not the result of a law, but because of circumstances.
numerical taxonomy
Archaeology; Evolution
In general, any method of taxonomy using numerical measurements. In particular, it often refers to phenetic classification using large numbers of quantitatively measured characters.
human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
Archaeology; Evolution
The virus causes AIDS by inactivating the T cells of the immune system.
ancestral homology
Archaeology; Evolution
Homology that evolved before the common ancestor of a set of species, and which is present in other species outside that set of species. Compare with derived homology.
homeobox
Archaeology; Evolution
Homeoboxes are relatively short (approximately 180 base pair) sequences of DNA, characteristic of some homeotic genes (which play a central role in controlling body development). Homeoboxes code for ...
