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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Human evolution

An event found only in the life cycle of flowering plants. It is the fusing of the sperm cell with the two nuclei of the gametophyte's central cell to form the cell that will become the endosperm of ...

negative feedback

Archaeology; Human evolution

In systems thinking, this is a process which acts to counter or "dampen" the potentially disruptive effects of external inputs; it acts as a stabilizing mechanism.

external occiptal protuberance (eop)

Archaeology; Human evolution

See inion.

signal hypothesis

Archaeology; Human evolution

The hypothesis that the secretion of proteins from a cell occurs through the binding of a hydrophobic amino terminal extension to the membrane and the subsequent removal and degradation of the ...