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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The abnormal condition in which one or more whole chromosomes of a normal set of chromosomes either are missing or are present in more than the usual number of copies. Aneuploidy also refers to the ...

mitosis

Archaeology; Human evolution

The process of nuclear division in haploid or diploid cells producing daughter nuclei that contain identical chromosome complements and that are genetically identical to one another and to the parent ...