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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 ...
