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Tracing the Huns’ Genetic Legacy: A Eurasian Patchwork of Ancestry

Anthropology.net

Within a few decades, they built an empire that stretched from the Eurasian steppe to the heart of Central Europe, reshaping political landscapes and leaving an imprint on European history. The researchers found no widespread East Asian ancestry among the European populations of the Carpathian Basin following the Huns' arrival.

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East Meets West: Avar Society’s Genetic Patchwork in Early Medieval Austria

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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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The First Europeans: Ancient Genomes Reveal Complex Histories of Human Expansion and Neanderthal Interactions

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Among these pioneers were individuals whose lives and genetic histories have now been reconstructed from the oldest modern human genomes yet sequenced. “This shared Neanderthal ancestry marks a pivotal chapter in the history of modern humans outside Africa,” remarked Johannes Krause, the study’s senior author.

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The Life of a 17,000-Year-Old Infant from Ice Age Italy

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The findings, published in Nature Communications 1 , reveal a wealth of information about the boy's ancestry, physical traits, health, and the environment in which he lived, offering a rare glimpse into the lives of prehistoric humans. The genomic history of southeastern Europe." Current Biology, 31(5), 1110-1120. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.11.029

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Most immigrants outpace Americans when it comes to education — with one big exception

The Hechinger Report

In this 2017 photo, students present their history projects at a New York City high school for recent immigrants and refugees. Immigrant Groups over the Long Term: The Second Generation and Beyond , a March 2018 working paper by Brian Duncan and Stephen J. Trejo’s own mixed ancestry inspired him to pursue this topic.

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Should we screen kids’ genes to ‘predict’ how successful they’ll be in school?

The Hechinger Report

There’s an ugly history of proponents of eugenics , who believe in reshaping humanity by breeding “superior traits” and removing “inferior traits,” justifying their thinking with genetics. There is also an enormous shortcoming in the datasets used for this research: Virtually all are built with DNA from people of European ancestry.

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OPINION: Betsy DeVos’ slippery slope of religion, ethnicity and race

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May 2, 2018, Washington D.C. I regularly offer a course at my university called Teaching the Holocaust: History and Memory. The ways in which these questions are eventually answered by the Department of Education will have implications for how history is taught in schools”. Photo: Alex Edelman/CNP via ZUMA Wire.