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- Australia [r]: Continent in the Southern Hemisphere and the federal parliamentary nation that occupies it. [e]
- Charles Darwin [r]: (1809 – 1882) English natural scientist, most famous for proposing the theory of natural selection. [e]
- Darwin operating system [r]: The open source, Unix-like base operating system of the Mac OS X, which uses the Mach-based XNU kernel. [e]
- Gyrification [r]: The folding process during brain development, or the extent of folding. [e]
- Lissencephaly [r]: Condition in which the cortical surface is smooth, as opposed to gyrified. Normal in many mammals and transient in human fetal development but a disorder in humans born with it. [e]
- Mammal [r]: A warm-blooded animal with a backbone which also has hair, and produces milk to feed its young. [e]
- Sex-determination system [r]: A biological process that determines the development of sexual gender. [e]
- Menopause [r]: The cessation of menstrual activity due to failure to form ovarian follicles, which normally occurs age 45–55, and evolutionary processes that may have affected the menstral cycle. [e]
- Torres Strait Islander [r]: A member of a group of Indigenous Australians who inhabit or originate from the Torres Strait Islands, which are situated between the northern tip of Cape York in Queensland and the south-west coast of Papua New Guinea. [e]
- Fetal programming [r]: Refers to adaptations made by a fetus in response to adverse or beneficial intrauterine environments, adaptations targeting the fetus’s survival, adaptations that affect fetal structure and function during the highly plastic period of embryonic/fetal development, adaptations that persist after birth and that influence the structural, metabolic and physiological characteristics of the individual throughout life, which system characteristics can predispose the individual in later life to maladaptations in response to environmental conditions differing from those to which the fetus had adapted. [e]