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East Meets West: Avar Society’s Genetic Patchwork in Early Medieval Austria

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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. Their society absorbed elements from both native Europeans and their East Asian heritage, creating a mosaic of influences.

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Resurrecting the Dire Wolf, or Clickbait Science for the 21st Century

Anthropology 365

Their morphological resemblance to grey wolves thus results from convergent evolution rather than shared ancestry ( Perri et al. Such animals may superficially resemble dire wolves in appearance or size, but they do not possess the complete genomic architecture, evolutionary heritage, or ecological identity of true dire wolves.