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APRIL 23, 2025

I was trying to understand how humans and wildlifeparticularly javelinaslive together in messy, contested landscapes, shaped as much by perception and politics as by biology. Instead, Jon turned his deep grounding in genetics into a sharp critique of how science makes claims about human difference. By the time I left for a Ph.D.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 31, 2025

The shift from a hunter-gatherer existence to an agrarian lifestyle stands as one of the most profound transformations in human history. However, recent research challenges this narrative, emphasizing the pivotal role of human interactions and demographic dynamics in this monumental change.​ Szécsényi-Nagy, A.,

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

But how did ancient humans experience and describe these feelings? By analyzing one million words of Akkadian cuneiform, researchers unearthed fascinating connections between emotional states and specific body parts, offering fresh insights into human emotional experience through time. PDF Link : uzh.ch Svärd, et al.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 13, 2024

A Glimpse into Europe’s Earliest Settlers Over 45,000 years ago, small groups of modern humans roamed the icy expanse of Ice Age Europe. Among these pioneers were individuals whose lives and genetic histories have now been reconstructed from the oldest modern human genomes yet sequenced.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 2, 2025

During the African Humid Period (14,500–5,000 years ago), this region supported thriving human populations. Their findings, recently published in Nature , challenge existing models of early human migration and isolation in North Africa. Pleistocene North African genomes link Near Eastern and sub-Saharan African human populations.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 18, 2025

It exemplifies how ancient populations balanced coexistence and diversity, paving the way for future exploration of genetic and cultural intersections in human history. Related Research **Pohl, W. “The Avars: A Steppe Empire in Central Europe, 567–822.” ” Cornell University Press. ” Nature Communications.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2025

Long before pharaohs ruled and scribes recorded human affairs, the seeds of economic disparity had already taken hold. “But these factors can be leveled off or modified by different human decisions and institutions.” The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The genetic legacy of Neanderthals persists in modern humans, with 1-2% of non-African genomes composed of Neanderthal DNA—a determination made through comprehensive sequencing and comparison of ancient and modern genomes. “These beneficial traits spread rapidly in early human populations.”

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Strange Maps

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The precursor and inspiration for Rail Baltica was a curious event that occurred on August 23, 1989, when up to 2 million people linked hands across Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia — then still part of the Soviet Union — to form the longest human chain in history. billion in 2017 to €24 billion today. More on that here.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 7, 2025

​ Harmonizing Histories: The Role of Music in Cultural Integration The integration of musical traditions between the Umm an-Nar culture and the Indus Valley civilization underscores the significance of cultural exchange in ancient times. ​ Further Reading and Related Studies Al-Jahwari, N. S., & Douglas, K.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 13, 2024

The Prehistoric Advantage of ADHD Traits For most of human history, Homo sapiens lived as hunter-gatherers. Fossil evidence indicates that our species has existed in this mode of life for at least 288,000 years, which accounts for approximately 95% of our evolutionary history. Biological Sciences , 291 (2017).

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 13, 2025

Before the soft-footed, domesticated Felis catus found its way into Chinese homes, another feline species occupied human settlements for thousands of years. Their findings suggest that leopard cats filled the niche of rodent control in human settlements long before domesticated cats arrived. One possibility is their temperament.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 26, 2025

But in the upland regions of Warner Valley, Oregon, a different kind of evidence is telling the story of early human diets: microscopic starch granules trapped in the cracks of bedrock metates. Archaeology often deals with what remains—the bones, the stone tools, the charred remnants of ancient hearths. A., & Pavlik, B. 1 Wilks, S.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

25, 2025 Studies Weekly Its often difficult to connect students to the real-world, real-time applications of events from history and the real people who lived them. The attacks on 9/11 affected millions of people, and informed much of the public policy in action today but for these children, that event is history. The primary source.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The Oakhurst rock shelter, nestled in the cliffs of South Africa’s southern coast, has long been a focal point for archaeologists due to its wealth of artifacts and human remains. These findings offer a new perspective on human population stability and cultural evolution in southern Africa.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I visited Colleton County High School in 2017 and was thoroughly impressed with students’ deep engagement in their courses, many of which were project-based as part of the New Tech Network. I had not learned of this fascinating portion of our state’s history until after graduating from the University of South Carolina. Former Gov.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The legislation is the first of its kind in the states history, Day said. The Louisiana legislature established an Early Childhood Education Fund in 2017 with the goal of incentivizing localities to raise funding to expand child care access by matching local funds at a 2:1 rate. It includes $26.25

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. During the 2017-18 school year, more than 69,000 students received corporal punishment almost 97,000 times nationwide.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2020

Though he has experience managing fast-food restaurants, he struggled to get even lower-paying work as a cook or cashier after his release from prison in 2017. Even more importantly, the program gave him the confidence that he could succeed, despite his history. It’s, like, ‘Oh my goodness, they’re actually human beings,’ ” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2021

Home plate umpire Marvin Hudson called balls and strikes during a Major League Baseball game between the New York Mets and San Francisco Giants in 2017 in San Francisco, California. The good news, according to this study, is that humans can quickly reset their attention spans.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Left vulnerable when the coronavirus pandemic hit, Missouri Western is now cutting nearly a third of its faculty and at least 98 majors, minors and concentrations , including in English, history, chemistry, biology, philosophy, sociology, political science, computer technology, music and art. Yet higher education has also kept building.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Nearly 30 percent of all four-year schools brought in less tuition revenue per student in 2017-18 than in 2009-10. About 700 public campuses received less in state and local appropriations in 2017-18 than in 2009-10, and about 190 private four-year institutions saw the size of their endowments fall relative to their costs.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

So 2017, right? Leave this field empty if you're human: “They might not be called a fidget spinner but it’s the same thing,” said Paulo Graziano, director of the S.E.L.F.-Regulation A student plays with a fidget spinner at school. Three research studies find that the objects detract from learning. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

It takes time, and money, and human capital and training,” Coleman told me in a follow-up conversation. Brayton is now 29, a civil engineer and mother of two, the first in her family to attend college – she graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2017 – and to own a home.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. Subconsciously, we turn to our teachers to make us better human beings and we look forward to experiences that they will give us. school system is a “mess.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The vast majority of the school’s students — and in 2017, all of them — are accepted into at least one college. This community in rural Lewis County made headlines in 2017 when all 43 of its graduating seniors were accepted into two- or four-year colleges. 43 — The number of students in Onalaska High School’s 2017 graduating class.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

Nekkita Beans, a Mississippi native and president of the University of Mississippi’s Black Student Union, stood center stage in a campus auditorium reading aloud the history of a group of men who fought to keep people like her enslaved, illiterate and, in many ways, invisible. OXFORD, Miss. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Students participate in morning workshops in advance of national May 1 “Day Without Immigrants” rallies, learning also about the labor rights history of May Day rallies worldwide. The exception is in the two humanities classes students take every day, one in each language. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2018

Angel Rivera and Sara Caro, humanities teachers at the Urban Assembly School for Applied Math and Science in the Bronx, meet to plan a lesson on World War II history lesson together. They teach both English and history, so they wanted their students to learn about the Holocaust and then read the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2020

He went on to say: “The man for whom my institution is named promoted individual liberties and advocated for the enslavement of humans. Washington’s response: “The question is a legitimate one — and it’s worth considering.” It’s a legacy with which we must deal.”. Related: Students sick of ‘lip service’ from universities over racism.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 20, 2024

Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings, in America? History this Week. The History Channel. Hamer’s speech further swayed public sympathy for the MFDP.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: “Wanting students to be able to ‘analyse, synthesise and evaluate’ information sounds like a reasonable goal,” writes Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. In the paper, Willingham traces the history of teaching critical thinking.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2018

For the 2017-18 school year, they broke up Vista’s freshman class of almost 700 students into six self-contained “houses.” At the beginning of the 2017-18 school year, freshman history teacher Matt Stuckey, one of the school’s most experienced personalized-learning practitioners, told students that change wouldn’t happen all at once.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2023

For her doctoral research at Temple University, Royal dug into the turbulent history of school reform in the city from the 1960s up to now, including reading through the minutes of every school board meeting from 1967 to 2017 and interviewing teachers and school leaders from the era. Royal welcomes the comparisons. “We

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2018

From Greensboro lunch counters to Tiananmen Square, youth have led significant campaigns for social and political change throughout history. Leave this field empty if you're human: Social studies is typically considered the most suitable subject area for developing citizenship skills and knowledge. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Six years later, according to one 2017 study , the retained kids weren’t testing any higher than their promoted peers at the same age. Leave this field empty if you're human: It’s easy to argue about this extensive and muddy body of research. Early Grade Retention and the Human Capital Development of English Learners.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

Students who take time off from four-year universities, opt for community colleges instead or shift to part time all could end up spending longer in school and are more likely to drop out, history and research show. That’s the inescapable lesson of history and research. Credit: Gregory Shamus/Getty Images.

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