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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.net
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. “This research is a landmark project,” said archaeologist David Hurst Thomas of the American Museum of Natural History.
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Anthropology.net
DECEMBER 13, 2024
The Kennis brothers, courtesy of The Natural History Museum, London New Insights from Ancient Genomes A groundbreaking study analyzed 58 ancient Eurasian genomes alongside the DNA of 275 contemporary humans. The Genomic Landscape of Neanderthal Ancestry in Present-Day Humans Authors : Sankararaman, S., DOI : 10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.10.003
Anthropology.net
DECEMBER 5, 2024
A recent study led by researchers from London’s Natural History Museum and the KU Leuven Institute of Philosophy reignites the debate over whether Homo sapiens and Neanderthals ( Homo neanderthalensis ) should be classified as separate species. Journal : Evolutionary Anthropology , 2022. DOI : 10.1002/evan.21955
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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