Anthropology.net
JANUARY 8, 2025
. “By connecting the dots between genetics, linguistics, and archaeology, we now recognize West Papua as the launching place of historical Papuan seafarers that now contribute up to 60% of modern Wallacean ancestry,” he said. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5689 Malaspinas, A.-S., Westaway, M. Bergström, A., Athanasiadis, G.,
Anthropology.net
MARCH 11, 2025
As more evidence emerges, the line between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens becomes less distinct, reminding us that our history is one of shared ancestry, borrowed ideas, and unexpected alliances. Related Research Hublin, J.-J. The last Neanderthal." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114 (38), 9602–9604. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1715833114
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Sapiens
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
By checking “Patient’s Race,” we health care providers pretend to know something that we cannot possibly know: the patient’s ancestry and associated medical risk. The very notion that one could segregate people into groups that roughly approximate ancestry assumes those ancestral groups have remained separate throughout history.
Anthropology.net
DECEMBER 13, 2024
“Most non-Africans today carry 1-2% Neanderthal ancestry, underscoring the impact of these interactions on the settlement of regions outside Africa.” The Genomic Landscape of Neanderthal Ancestry in Present-Day Humans Authors : Sankararaman, S., Journal : Cell , 2016. DOI : 10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.10.003 Rougier, H.,
Anthropology.net
DECEMBER 13, 2024
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 , 2016. Journal : Science , 2016.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Law enforcement agencies reported 7,175 hate crimes in 2017, up from 6,121 in 2016. . According to the 2018 Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program’s annual Hate Crime Statistics report , law enforcement agencies reported 7,175 hate crimes in 2017, up from 6,121 in 2016.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 19, 2018
Two economists from the University of Colorado and the University of Texas at Austin studied data from a monthly survey conducted by the Census Department and the Bureau of Labor Statistics from 2003 through 2016 and found that U.S. Trejo’s own mixed ancestry inspired him to pursue this topic.
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