Evolution

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 ...