BIOLOGY 171 Chapter Notes - Chapter Unit 3 : Melanin, Commensalism, Autotroph
2 Nov 2016
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Adaptive radiation: a period of unusually rapid evolutionary diversification in which natural selection accelerates the rates of both speciation and adaptation in a single lineage. Animals: multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom animalia. All animals are motile, produce collagen, and have a blastula stage. Ardipithecus: a genus of an extinct hominine that lived during late miocene and early pliocene in afar depression, ethiopia. Australopithecus: a fossil bipedal primate with both apelike and human characteristic, found in. Denisovans: an extinct species of human in the genus homo. The species is sometimes given the name homo sp. Genus: a principal taxonomic category that ranks above species and below family, and is denoted by a capitalized latin name. Great apes: a large ape of a family closely related to humans, including the gorilla, orangutan and chimpanzee, but excluding the gibbons. Hominids: a primate of a family that includes humans and their fossil ancestors. All hominins are hominids, but very few hominids are hominins.
