Human evolution

Human evolution

Otherwise known as anthropogeny; anything of or relating to the study of the origin and evolution of Homo sapiens as a distinct species from other hominids, great apes and placental mammals.

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stratigraphy

Archaeology; Human evolution

The location or position of fossil or other deposits relative to other buried layers or features.

one gene-one polypeptide hypothesis

Archaeology; Human evolution

Updated version of the one gene-one enzyme hypothesis, which states that each gene controls the synthesis of a polypeptide chain.

A large cell produced by the primary oocyte. In the ovaries of female animals the diploid primary oocyte goes through meiosis I and unequal cytokinesis to produce two cells; the large cell is called ...