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

Raised, elongated-oval, convex articular eminences on either side of the foramen magnum of the occiptal bone, for the junction of the head and the uppermost neck vertebra occiptal lobes. Back part of ...

small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particles (snRNPs)

Archaeology; Human evolution

The complexes formed by small nuclear RNAs and proteins in which the processing of pre-mRNA molecules occurs.

cranium

Archaeology; Human evolution

The skull, without the mandible, made up of 28 bones.

travertine

Archaeology; Human evolution

A calcium carbonate rock deposited around lime-rich springs and lakes.

trapezius muscle

Archaeology; Human evolution

A muscle extending from the nuchal plane to the clavicle and scapula that stabilizes the shoulder and brings the scapula upwards.

gene (medelian factor)

Archaeology; Human evolution

A unit of inheritence carried on a chromosome, transmitted from generation to generation by the gametes and controlling some aspects of the development of an individual.