Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

These European burials included individuals with "eastern-type" traits—characteristics often associated with nomadic steppe traditions. The researchers found no widespread East Asian ancestry among the European populations of the Carpathian Basin following the Huns' arrival. Related Research de Barros Damgaard, P., Veeramah, K.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

A population of hybrid ancestry? Without knowing whether these artifacts were part of larger symbolic traditions—such as burial practices, ritual behavior, or social markers—it remains speculative to interpret them as evidence of fully developed symbolic cognition. Did Neanderthals create them? Early modern humans?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

According to the 2018 Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program’s annual Hate Crime Statistics report , law enforcement agencies reported 7,175 hate crimes in 2017, up from 6,121 in 2016. 1, 2018 and May 31, 2019, an increase of 7 percent from the prior academic year. Incidents of hate are on the rise in the U.S.,

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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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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Revisiting Assumptions About Brain Evolution Traditional views of human evolution suggested that brain size underwent sudden, transformative increases between species, akin to major technological leaps. This gradual pattern of brain growth reflects the adaptive pressures faced by early humans and their relatives. Triki, Z., & Bshary, R.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This suggests that the shared trait of having large brains, rather than ancestry, shaped these microbial communities. Traditional human populations and nonhuman primates show parallel gut microbiome adaptations to analogous ecological conditions. Clayton, J. The gut microbiome of nonhuman primates: lessons in ecology and evolution.

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