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

Populations that live by hunting (and often scavenging dead) animals, gathering plant foods, insects and other small and relatively sedentary animals, and sharing the fruits of these planned economic ...

corpus callosum

Archaeology; Human evolution

The bundle of neurons that connects the left and right cerebral hemispheres.

olfaction

Archaeology; Human evolution

The sense of smell.

pentose sugar

Archaeology; Human evolution

A 5-carbon sugar that, along with a nitrogenous base and a phosphate group, is one of the three parts of a nucleotide, the building block of RNA and DNA.

contextual seriation

Archaeology; Human evolution

A method of relative dating pioneered by Flinders Petrie in the 19th century, in which artifacts are arranged according to the frequencies of their co-occurrence in specific contexts.