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JANUARY 16, 2025

What we’ve found, however, suggests a sophisticated society where maternal ancestry shaped group identity.” ” The avoidance of close inbreeding and the occurrence of marriages between distant family branches suggest that the Durotriges had a deep awareness of their ancestry. DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511521218 Olalde, I.,

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APRIL 4, 2025

By analyzing 338 distinct knots from archaeological archives and museum collections, they discovered a surprisingly stable repertoire. “The ability to tie them may have been passed between cultures, or more likely through shared ancestry,” — Roope Kaaronen But cultural transmission can’t explain everything.

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DECEMBER 13, 2024

The Kennis brothers, courtesy of The Natural History Museum, London New Insights from Ancient Genomes A groundbreaking study analyzed 58 ancient Eurasian genomes alongside the DNA of 275 contemporary humans. Journal : The American Journal of Human Genetics , 2015. Origins of Modern Human Ancestry Authors : Bergström, A.,

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JUNE 23, 2024

Source: Natural History Museum, London Rajiv McCoy, a computational geneticist at Johns Hopkins University, remarks, "It’s probably the most comprehensive picture we have to date of Neanderthal gene flow into modern human populations." Neandertal ancestry through time: Insights from genomes of ancient and present-day humans.

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