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MAY 1, 2025

The short, high, gracile cranial forms common in recent centuries may owe more to changes in nutrition, lifestyle, and climate than to deep ancestry. Related Research Olalde, I., The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe.

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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 , 2018. Journal : Nature , 2018.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The Engraved Stones of the Levant The researchers focused on five artifacts from four archaeological sites: Manot Cave, Amud Cave, Qafzeh Cave, and Quneitra. Credit: Erella Hovers To determine whether these incisions were intentional engravings or merely the result of tool use, researchers applied advanced 3D surface analysis.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

But recent research has raised another possibility — one that is discomforting to many — the idea that scientists might someday be able to spot the genetic markers associated with academic performance. It’s a research technique that some scientists are using to assess obesity or cancer risk, for instance.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2018

In a working paper distributed this month by the National Bureau of Economic Research, they documented that most immigrant groups either arrived with high levels of education or their U.S. Immigrant Groups over the Long Term: The Second Generation and Beyond , a March 2018 working paper by Brian Duncan and Stephen J.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

May 2, 2018, Washington D.C. Assistant Secretary of Education Kenneth Marcus said the department was reopening the case “on the basis of actual or perceived shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics” that would constitute a violation of federal discrimination laws, and thus fall under the agency’s description.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Zachrisson, a professor at the Centre for Research on Equality in Education at the University of Oslo. million people , about 82 percent of whom are of Norwegian ancestry, across a space roughly the size of Montana. Researchers have found that Norway’s kindergartens have positive effects on academic success and the adult labor force.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 16, 2024

In a remarkable feat of ancient DNA analysis, researchers have reconstructed the genetic story of a baby boy who lived over 17,000 years ago in Ice Age Europe. The genetic material allowed researchers to reconstruct details about his physical appearance, ancestry, and even the health challenges he faced.

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MARCH 4, 2024

But Dee’s research shows that private schooling increased by about 8 percent nationally. Related: Dallas students flocking to schools that pull students from both rich and poor parts of town Family and friends are most influential in shaping people’s attitudes about schools, research specific to SFUSD shows. But change is coming.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

While previous studies have explored the roles of diet, environmental pressures, and genetics in brain development, new research 1 highlights an intriguing factor: gut microbes. This suggests that the shared trait of having large brains, rather than ancestry, shaped these microbial communities. Clayton, J.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Researchers from the University of Reading, the University of Oxford, and Durham University reveal that brain size increased incrementally within species over millions of years, rather than through dramatic leaps between species. Source: Progress in Brain Research. Source: BioRxiv. Evolution of Brain-Body Allometry Tsuboi, M.,

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 19, 2025

. “We cannot say that these tombs were the final resting places of a dynastic lineage who restricted access to ‘burial’ within these tombs to their relatives,” the researchers write. Few of the buried individuals shared immediate ancestry. Further Reading & Related Research Booth, T. link] Furholt, M.

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