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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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Evolution
retina
Archaeology; Evolution
The back wall of the eye onto which images are projected. From the retina, the information is sent to the brain via the optic nerve.
James Moore
Archaeology; Evolution
The author, with Adrian Desmond, of an authoritative biography of Charles Darwin, Moore has made a 20-year study of Darwin's life. With degrees in science, divinity, and history, he has taught the ...
classification
Archaeology; Evolution
The arrangement of organisms into hierarchical groups. Modern biological classifications are Linnaean and classify organisms into species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, kingdom, and certain ...
half-life
Archaeology; Evolution
The amount of time it takes for one-half of the atoms of a radioactive material to decay to a stable form. For example, the half-life of carbon-14 is 5,568 years.
wobble
Archaeology; Evolution
The ability of the third base in some anticodons of tRNA to bond with more than one kind of base in the complementary position in the mRNA codon.
Charles Darwin
Archaeology; Evolution
The 19th-century naturalist considered the father of evolution. His landmark work, On the Origin of Species, published in 1859, presented a wealth of facts supporting the idea of evolution and ...
