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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.

Contributors in Human evolution

Human evolution

repressor gene

Archaeology; Human evolution

A regulatory gene whose product is a protein that controls the transcriptional activity of a particular operon.

innominate (os coxae)

Archaeology; Human evolution

Large bone forming the sides of the pelvis.

apes

Archaeology; Human evolution

The large hominoid arboreal primates, based on similarity and not common descent (apes are not a monophyletic group).

oncogenesis

Archaeology; Human evolution

Tumor (cancer) initiation in an organism.

fine-structure mapping

Archaeology; Human evolution

A high-resolution mapping of allelic sites within a gene.

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