2025 Ancestry Anthropology 
Anthropology.net
JANUARY 18, 2025
New research, published in Nature 1 by an international team of researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, delves into the lives of two neighboring Avar communities in Lower Austria. These people were obviously regarded as Avars, regardless of their ancestry." Zlámalová, D., Gretzinger, J.,
Anthropology.net
APRIL 2, 2025
This discovery reveals a deeply rooted and long-isolated genetic lineage in North Africa," said Nada Salem of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, the study’s lead author. This ancient group shares ancestry with the 15,000-year-old foragers of Taforalt Cave in Morocco, associated with the Iberomaurusian culture.
Anthropology.net
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.
Anthropology 365
APRIL 7, 2025
On the May 12th, 2025 cover of Time Magazine , you will see a picture of a white wolf below the bold word Extinct slashed through with a red block. Their morphological resemblance to grey wolves thus results from convergent evolution rather than shared ancestry ( Perri et al. Below it reads “This is Remus. He’s a dire wolf.
Anthropology.net
MARCH 31, 2025
Researchers from institutions including the University of Bath and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have developed a mathematical model that underscores the significance of human demographic interactions over environmental factors. 122 (14) e2416221122, [link] (2025). Kolář, R. Staniuk, & A.
Anthropology.net
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Journal of Physiological Anthropology , 44 (1). Human history is not just about where we came from but how we adapted to the ever-changing environments we encountered. Analysis of the Neanderthal genome revealed that 1 to 4% of the genome in modern humans living outside Africa is derived from Neanderthals," the study notes.
Anthropology.net
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
A recent study published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 1 takes a significant step toward answering these questions. A population of hybrid ancestry? Current Anthropology. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences , 17 (1). But at what point did this transition occur? Did Neanderthals create them?
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