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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.
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cryptocrystalline
Archaeology; Human evolution
Refers to a rock of fine-grained aggregate crystalls less than 3 μm in diameter.
expressivity
Archaeology; Human evolution
The degree to which a particular genotype is expressed in the phenotype.
diakinesis
Archaeology; Human evolution
The stage that follows diplonema and during which the four chromatids of each tetrad are most condensed and the chiasmata often terminalize.
heterokaryon
Archaeology; Human evolution
A cell or collection of cells (as in a mycelium) possessing genetically different nuclei (regardless of their number) in a common cytoplasm.
mutator gene
Archaeology; Human evolution
A mutant gene that increases the spontaneous mutation frequencies of other genes.
polytypic
Archaeology; Human evolution
A variable taxons that contains more than one taxon of the next lower category, such as a species with several subspecies or races.
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