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Doctors Are Taught to Lie About Race

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By checking “Patient’s Race,” we health care providers pretend to know something that we cannot possibly know: the patient’s ancestry and associated medical risk. The very notion that one could segregate people into groups that roughly approximate ancestry assumes those ancestral groups have remained separate throughout history.

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People Are Not Peas—Why Genetics Education Needs an Overhaul

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Across time, past humans frequently migrated , mated with, or displaced people they encountered in other regions—resulting in a tangled tree of human ancestry. But sickle cell anemia is neither unique to nor characteristic of people with African ancestry. Lewontin died at age 92 in 2021.

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Voices at the Center: Asian American Educators Rising

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On March 16, 2021, a 21-year-old white man went on a targeted shooting rampage across Atlanta, driving 30 miles to three massage businesses and killing eight people, the majority of whom were Asian women. A vigil attendee honored the victims of the anti-Asian spa shootings in Atlanta by remembering their names on March 21, 2021.

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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. Life history and ancestry of the late Upper Palaeolithic infant from Grotta delle Mura, Italy.

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Ancient Iberian Slate Plaques: Early Genealogical Records?

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A recent study, published in the European Journal of Archaeology 1 , suggests these plaques may represent one of humanity's earliest attempts at recording genealogy—a non-verbal precursor to modern ancestry documentation. Journal : Revista Portuguesa de Arqueologia , 2021. Blanco, G., & Rodríguez-Rodríguez, E.

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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., Origins of Modern Human Ancestry Authors : Bergström, A.,

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Unveiling Homo juluensis: A New Chapter in Human Evolution

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Bridging Evolutionary Gaps in Asia Asia's evolutionary timeline during the Pleistocene is marked by a mosaic of hominin species, each contributing uniquely to human ancestry. Source: Quaternary International, 2021. However, this diversity has often been poorly understood, with many fossils categorized into broad, ambiguous groups.