- Industry: Archaeology
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Stone tools made as a result of extra effort in their production. These tools are in contrast toexpediently made tools with little or no effort expended in their production.
Industry:Archaeology
The phenomenon of the insertion of a temperate phage chromosome into a bacterial chromosome, where it replicates when the bacterial chromosome replicates. In this state the phage genome is repressed and is said to be in the prophage state.
Industry:Archaeology
A descent principle culturally used to define eligibility for membership in a kin group.
Industry:Archaeology
A pyrimidine base found in RNA and DNA. In double-stranded DNA, cytosine pairs with the purine guanine.
Industry:Archaeology
An observable phenotypic feature of the developing, or fully developed organism that is the result of gene action, environmental stress, or a combination of the two.
Industry:Archaeology
Individuals among progeny of crosses that have combinations of genetic markers like one or other of the parents in the parental generation.
Industry:Archaeology
The inherent tendency for certain neural connections to form, with the consequence that particular behavioral associations are easier, or more likely, to be learned.
Industry:Archaeology
Tooth with an elliptical or circular cross-section and a single cusp; in anthropoids, generally referring to the lower anterior premolar wich wears against the overlapping upper canine, creating a honing facet on the premolar's mesial surface from cutting against the distal edge of the canine in a scissors-like action.
Industry:Archaeology
A group of closely related species, a monophyletic category for the taxon above the species level that includes one or more species.
Industry:Archaeology
