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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genealogical species

Archaeology; Human evolution

Species that are defined by common ancestry and are treated as distinct individuals with definite beginnings and ends.

fission-track dating

Archaeology; Human evolution

A dating method based on the operation of a radioactive clock, the spontaneous fission of anisotope of uranium present in a wide range of rocks and minerals. As with potassium-argon dating, with ...

A process, usually in the form of a crest, paralleling or straddling the occipitomastoid suture and separated from the most lateral paramastoid process, if there is one, by an occipital grove. See ...