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The Ocean Floor Jawbone That’s Redrawing Denisovan History

Anthropology.net

Denisovan ancestry and population history of early East Asians. Suggested Related Research Chen, F., A late Middle Pleistocene Denisovan mandible from the Tibetan Plateau. Nature , 569, 409–412. link] Slon, V., The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father. Nature , 561, 113–116. link] Massilani, D.,

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The Genomic Legacy of the Picenes: Unraveling Italy’s Forgotten Civilization

Anthropology.net

Credit: Incola / Wikimedia Commons Despite these external influences, the Picenes largely retained a genetic profile similar to other Iron Age Italic groups, emphasizing a shared ancestry that predated the Roman era. Green gradients show the hypothesized origins of individuals with diverse ancestries in the Central Italic IA.

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Neanderthals and Modern Humans: A Shared Past Revealed Through DNA

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“Most non-Africans today carry 1-2% Neanderthal ancestry, underscoring the impact of these interactions on the settlement of regions outside Africa.” The Genomic Landscape of Neanderthal Ancestry in Present-Day Humans Authors : Sankararaman, S., Journal : PNAS , 2019. DOI : 10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.10.003 Rougier, H.,

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

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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 Ecology & Evolution , 2019. Journal : Nature , 2014.

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Carving the Mind: Middle Paleolithic Engravings and the Dawn of Symbolic Thought

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A population of hybrid ancestry? While Qafzeh Cave is well known for its early Homo sapiens burials , Manot Cave and Quneitra contain archaeological deposits from multiple time periods​ This makes it difficult to attribute these engravings to a specific hominin species. Did Neanderthals create them? Early modern humans? Zilhão, J.

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Sapiens

The vermillion marks on our foreheads dispel assumptions about our ancestry, I draw stares as we stand next to aunty. A road winds through the verdant hills of Nuwara in Sri Lanka, as photographed during the author’s fieldwork in August 2019. We are a motley crew: aunty, uncle, and two young women.

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By suspending protesting students, what lessons are Syracuse University leaders teaching?

The Hechinger Report

Since November 7, 2019, the student-run newspaper The Daily Orange has documented at least 30 hate incidents on or near campus that have largely gone unaddressed and unpunished. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported in 2019 that white supremacist propaganda had increased on college campuses, citing more than 300 cases between Sept.

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