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FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Credit: Boglárka Mészáros, BHM Aquincum Museum A team of geneticists, archaeologists, and historians from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the HistoGenes project examined the DNA of 370 individuals dating from the 2nd century BCE to the 6th century CE, spanning sites from Mongolia to Central Europe.

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MAY 1, 2025

federally recognized tribe has led and co-authored a genomic study of its own ancestry. Ancient Ties, Modern Stakes The study grew from a desire not just to explore ancestry but to support sovereignty. The Savage Within: The Social History of British Anthropology. But the genomic evidence from Picuris contradicts that narrative.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

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. Source: American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2010. Source: Current Anthropology, 2017.

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APRIL 7, 2025

Their morphological resemblance to grey wolves thus results from convergent evolution rather than shared ancestry ( Perri et al. Contrary to previous assumptions based primarily on morphological similarities, dire wolves diverged approximately 5.7 million years ago from the lineage leading to today’s wolves and coyotes ( Perri et al.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 13, 2024

“Most non-Africans today carry 1-2% Neanderthal ancestry, underscoring the impact of these interactions on the settlement of regions outside Africa.” Dr. Benjamin Peter from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology explained, “We show that the period of mixing was quite complex. Journal : Nature , 2021.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

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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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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. I was struck by an alarming dichotomy: Genetics and anthropology scholarship have unanimously refuted a biological basis for race. Yet, the M.D.

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