Anthropology.net

MARCH 18, 2025

Rather than a single lineage evolving smoothly over time, the evidence suggests a history of separation and recombination," says Cousins. This approach circumvents the need for physical fossils, offering a way to reconstruct population history even when no bones or artifacts remain. Ancient DNA and the new science of the human past.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Distribution of Bell Beaker-derived and Yamnaya-derived ancestry proportions obtained from the IBD admixture model. DOI: 10.1101/2024.12.02.626332 The Genetic Story of Two Migrations By analyzing 314 ancient genomes, researchers identified two distinct expansions of steppe ancestry into the Mediterranean.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 18, 2025

While Leobersdorf's population was predominantly of East Asian origin, Mödling's inhabitants carried European ancestry," said Ke Wang, one of the study’s lead geneticists. These people were obviously regarded as Avars, regardless of their ancestry." But ancient DNA analysis told a different story. Related Research **Pohl, W.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 5, 2024

A recent study led by researchers from London’s Natural History Museum and the KU Leuven Institute of Philosophy reignites the debate over whether Homo sapiens and Neanderthals ( Homo neanderthalensis ) should be classified as separate species. Publisher : Oxford University Press , 2017. What Defines a Species?

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

A recent study, published in the European Journal of Archaeology 1 , suggests these plaques may represent one of humanity's earliest attempts at recording genealogy—a non-verbal precursor to modern ancestry documentation. Journal : Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences , 2017.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 11, 2025

Our data show that human connections and population interactions have been fundamental in driving cultural and technological innovations throughout history," says Yossi Zaidner, an archaeologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and lead researcher on the project. Explores the complex history of modern human evolution.

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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.

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