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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 ...
A disease that remains at a more or less constant frequency of affected individuals in a population all of the time. Examples: hypertension, tooth decay, and malaria.
Industry:Anthropology
A class of feminizing hormones. Both men and women produce them, but females normally produce much more.
Industry:Anthropology
A group of closely related species. In the Linnaean classification system, genus is the category immediately above species.
Industry:Anthropology
A hypothesis to explain the origin of modern Homo sapiens. It proposes that modern people evolved from archaic humans in Africa, Europe, and Asia. In other words, modern African, European, and Asian people have considerable antiquity in their own continents. See replacement model and assimilation model.
Industry:Anthropology
A group of individuals arranged in rank order. In some non-human primate species, each community has a distinct male and female dominance hierarchy. Every individual is ranked relative to all other community members of the same gender. In the case of rhesus macaque females, rank is determined by the relative rank of their mothers. Depending on the species, male ranking may be similarly determined by the mother's rank or it may be earned in competition with other males. Individuals who are higher in the dominance hierarchy usually have greater access to food, sex, and other desirable things. See alpha male and female.
Industry:Anthropology
A similar evolutionary development in different species lines after divergence from a common ancestor that had the initial anatomical feature that led to it. Parallelism is thought to be due primarily to the independent species lines experiencing the same kinds of natural selection pressures. Parallelism is also referred to as parallel evolution. Parallelism results in homoplasies. See convergence.
Industry:Anthropology
A class of substances (usually proteins) that are produced by specialized cells and that travel to other parts of the body, where they influence chemical reactions and regulate various cellular functions. Hormones include the secretions of the endocrine glands that affect metabolism and behavior. Testosterone, estrogen, and insulin are examples of such hormones.
Industry:Anthropology
A rare chromosomal abnormality in which there is a trisomy of chromosome 18. This inherited condition is also called Edward's syndrome. It is characterized by severe mental retardation, a small head with malformed ears set low, and a face with a pinched appearance. Other likely defects include a cleft palate, webbed hands, missing thumbs, clubfeet, as well as heart and genitourinary defects. Individuals with trisomy 18 usually die within a few months after birth.
Industry:Anthropology
A similar evolutionary development in different species lines after divergence from a common ancestor that had the initial anatomical feature that led to it. Parallelism is thought to be due primarily to the independent species lines experiencing the same kinds of natural selection pressures. Parallelism is also referred to as parallel evolution. Parallelism results in homoplasies. See convergence.
Industry:Anthropology
The study of conditions, processes, or results of diseases. Pathology also is used to refer to any abnormal physiological condition.
Industry:Anthropology
