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MerrillSinger, PhD, University of Connecticut The COVID-19 pandemic brought enhanced global attention to the anthropological concept of syndemics. As medical anthropologist Lance Gravlee observed, syndemics has achieved a broader reach than most anthropological ideas. It is a syndemic. Books and edited collections include Singer, M.
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Journal : Journal of Anthropological Archaeology , 2019. Journal : Arctic Anthropology , 2020. Journal : Science , 2014. DOI : 10.1007/s10745-021-00234-z Link : ResearchGate PDF Summary : Discusses early human intervention in orphaned pups, suggesting this behavior was foundational to the domestication process. DOI : 10.3368/aa.57.1.45
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Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have decoded 1 the DNA of seven individuals found at sites in Germany and Czechia, revealing a lineage that carried traces of Neanderthal ancestry and left behind no modern descendants. Journal : Nature , 2014. Journal : Nature , 2014.
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