- Branche: Education
- Number of terms: 12355
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
Founded in 1946, Palomar College is a public two-year community college in the city of San Marcos, located in north San Diego County, California. Palomar offers over 300 associate degree, certificate programs and is designated by the U.S. Department of Education as an Hispanic-Serving Institution ...
An artifact made from a flake knocked off of a larger rock usually by percussion flaking. See core tool.
Industry:Anthropology
An arrangement in terms of rank or importance. The Linnaean classification system of living things is hierarchical--it is a system of classification with the highest category consisting of all living things. Lower down are levels of less inclusive sub-categories. The lowest sub-category is a species.
Industry:Anthropology
An archaeological term referring to composted soil resulting from a refuse heap left by humans in the past. Middens often contain artifacts and food refuse remains such as bone and mollusk shell fragments.
Industry:Anthropology
An approach to discovering evolutionary relationships between organisms based on shared derived traits. Cladistics has largely replaced the older approach known as evolutionary or phylogenetic sytematics which grouped organisms together based on homologies in general without distinguishing between primitive and derived ones.
Industry:Anthropology
An animal within the primate suborder Anthropoidea. Monkeys, apes, and humans are anthropoids.
Industry:Anthropology
An animal that travels through the trees by swinging under branches with a hand over hand motion. The smaller apes and some New World monkeys brachiate.
Industry:Anthropology
An animal that lacks an internal skeleton. All animals other than fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals are invertebrates. Approximately 95% of all animals are invertebrates.
Industry:Anthropology
An alternate form or variety of a gene. The alleles for a trait occupy the same locus or position on homologous chromosomes and thus govern the same trait. However, because they are different, their action may result in different expressions of that trait.
Industry:Anthropology
An allele that masks the presence of a recessive allele in the phenotype. Dominant alleles for a trait are usually expressed if an individual is homozygous dominant or heterozygous.
Industry:Anthropology
