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Tracing the Genetic Threads of Wallacea’s Complex History

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A recent study sheds new light on its human history, highlighting the deep impact of migrations from New Guinea into this region approximately 3,500 years ago. Researchers analyzed 254 newly sequenced genomes, uncovering evidence of extensive gene flow from West Papua into the islands of Wallacea. Related Research Lipson, M.,

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The Hidden Code of Greenlanders: What Genetics Reveals About Their Ancestry and Health

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But beneath its frozen surface lies a complex history of human migration, isolation, and adaptation. Led by a team of international researchers, this large-scale genomic analysis, recently published in Nature 1 , analyzed nearly 6,000 Greenlandic individuals—an astonishing 14% of the adult population.

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The Evolution of European Pigmentation: A Slow, Complex Journey Through Ancient DNA

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But a new study, conducted by researchers at the University of Ferrara and published as a preprint on bioRxiv 1 , challenges this oversimplified account. Instead, the researchers found that the first light-skinned individuals did not appear until the Mesolithic period (~12,000 years ago), and even then, they were rare.

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Dog Domestication: A Tale of Alaskan Canids and Human Companionship

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The Study of Ancient Alaskan Canids To explore this complex history, a team of archaeologists led by François Lanoë from the University of Arizona analyzed 111 sets of bones from canids unearthed at archaeological sites across interior Alaska. Journal : Science , 2014. lupus/familiaris ). DOI : 10.1126/science.1256236

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Ancient Instincts, Modern Power Struggles: How Evolution Still Shapes Human Society

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History provides ample evidence of this dynamic. Without deliberate intervention, he warns, the same forces that shaped ancient power struggles will continue to dictate the course of history. Related Research Sapolsky, R. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst.

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Responding to a summer of riots: Principles for teaching about sensitive issues in the history classroom

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But how should we approach this in the history classroom? As history teachers we often problematise controversial issues to ‘see both sides of an issue’. As always it is helpful to come back to the discipline of history and what it means to teach sensitive histories well. Grosvenor (2000, p.157),

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The First Europeans: Ancient Genomes Reveal Complex Histories of Human Expansion and Neanderthal Interactions

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Among these pioneers were individuals whose lives and genetic histories have now been reconstructed from the oldest modern human genomes yet sequenced. The researchers also found evidence of close kinship among the Ranis individuals, including a mother and daughter. Journal : Nature , 2014. Journal : Nature , 2018.