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Neanderthals and Modern Humans: A Shared Past Revealed Through DNA

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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. The Genomic Landscape of Neanderthal Ancestry in Present-Day Humans Authors : Sankararaman, S., Journal : Cell , 2016.

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Neanderthals and Modern Humans Interbred 47,000 Years Ago

Anthropology.net

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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Doctors Are Taught to Lie About Race

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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.

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Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Studies Weekly

Army’s 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a group of soldiers of Japanese ancestry, during World War II. In 2016, Ko was honored by the National Women’s History Museum for success and leadership in business. He was also Hawaii’s first representative after it became a state in 1959. Inouye served in the U.S.