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. 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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Sapiens

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Across time, past humans frequently migrated , mated with, or displaced people they encountered in other regions—resulting in a tangled tree of human ancestry. At the American Museum of Natural History, a 2001 digital representation of the human genome presents color coding for the four chemical components of DNA.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

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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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 16, 2024

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. The genomic history of southeastern Europe." Villalba-Mouco, V., Current Biology, 31(5), 1110-1120.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 13, 2024

By analyzing distinctive genetic markers, researchers quantified this percentage, shedding light on the enduring impact of interbreeding events in human evolutionary history. “Most non-Africans today carry 1-2% Neanderthal ancestry, underscoring the impact of these interactions on the settlement of regions outside Africa.”

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Anthropology.net

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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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The evolution of the human brain is one of the most remarkable chapters in our species' history. This suggests that the shared trait of having large brains, rather than ancestry, shaped these microbial communities. Brain tissue, one of the most metabolically expensive types, requires a steady and substantial energy supply. Barelli, C.,

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