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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
Australopithecus afarensis
Archaeology; Evolution
An early australopithecine species that was bipedal; known fossils date between 3. 6 and 2. 9 mya (for example, Lucy).
Charles Murray
Archaeology; Evolution
An author and policy analyst who has written many controversial and influential books on social policy. He is coauthor with Richard J. Herrnstein of The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure ...
Gregor Mendel
Archaeology; Evolution
An Austrian monk whose plant breeding experiments, begun in 1856, led to insights into the mechanisms of heredity that are the foundation of genetics today. His work was ignored in his lifetime and ...
Gina Kirchweger
Archaeology; Evolution
An Austrian biologist interested in the biological evolution of skin tone. Her essay, "The Biology of Skin Color," concerns the evolution of race.
isotope
Archaeology; Evolution
An atom that shares the same atomic number and position as other atoms in an element but has a different number of neutrons and thus a different atomic mass.
creation science
Archaeology; Evolution
An assortment of many different, non-scientific attempts to disprove evolutionary theory, and efforts to prove that the complexity of living things can be explained only by the action of an ...
recessive
Archaeology; Evolution
An allele (A) is recessive if the phenotype of the heterozygote (Aa) is the same as the homozygote (aa) for the alternative allele (a) and different from the homozygote for the recessive (AA). The ...
