- Branche: Archaeology
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The traits that appear in both sexes but either the frequency of occurrence in the two sexes is different or there is a different relationship between genotype and phenotype.
Industry:Archaeology
A compound crest on the back of the skull formed by convergence of the temporal line of the nuchal crest.
Industry:Archaeology
A ploymeric molecule consisting of deoxyribonucleotide building blocks that in a double-stranded, double-helical form is the genetic material of most organisms.
Industry:Archaeology
An animal that eats primarily grains; often used to describe seed-eating.
Industry:Archaeology
In alliance threory, a requirement that marriage be with a partner in a particular kinship category. Even where "incorrect" marriages occur, they are likely to be classified as if they were correct, and kinship relations readjusted accordingly.
Industry:Archaeology
The transfer of a function to one side of a bilaterally symmetric structure or body.
Industry:Archaeology
A concave scar on the surface of rock usually caused by differential expansion and contraction of the rock, such as heating by fire.
Industry:Archaeology
A pocket or cavity within a cranial bone, also applied to describe the grooved pathways for blood vessels on the endocranial surface.
Industry:Archaeology
