Physical anthropology

Physical anthropology

The branch of anthropology that studies the development of the human race in the context of other primate species.

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Translocation

Anthropology; Physical anthropology

A structural modification of a chromosome in which a portion of a chromatid is broken off and attached to a different location on that chromosome or on another chromosome. This occurs as a result of ...

biface

Anthropology; Physical anthropology

A stone tool that is shaped on two faces or sides. Hand axes are examples of bifaces. See uniface.

standard deviation

Anthropology; Physical anthropology

A statistical measure of the dispersion (or spread) from the arithmetic mean (or average) of a group of scores. Chronometric dates derived with a radiometric method are published with a "plus or ...

karyotype

Anthropology; Physical anthropology

A standardized arrangement of pictures of an individual’s chromosomes cut out from a microphotograph of a cell and rearranged into homologous pairs according to size and other physical ...

biospecies

Anthropology; Physical anthropology

A species that has been defined on the basis of the ability to produce fertile offspring. Members of the same species can produce offspring that can in turn reproduce while members of different ...

morphospecies

Anthropology; Physical anthropology

A species that has been defined on the basis of physical, measurable characteristics. See biospecies.

heterosis

Anthropology; Physical anthropology

Increased health of individuals who are the result of negative assortative mating, or crossbreeding. This is due to the fact that when mates are from very different genetic lines they are more likely ...