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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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 ...