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Unveiling Homo juluensis: A New Chapter in Human Evolution

Anthropology.net

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: Book by R.J. However, this diversity has often been poorly understood, with many fossils categorized into broad, ambiguous groups. Source: PNAS, 2012.

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The Geometry of Memory: How Knots Carry the Weight of Human History

Anthropology.net

“The ability to tie them may have been passed between cultures, or more likely through shared ancestry,” — Roope Kaaronen But cultural transmission can’t explain everything. In some cases, such as identical knots from South America and Russia, the likelihood of direct interaction is negligible. Coolidge, F.

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How We Can Honor Indigenous Values in Our Teaching Without Appropriating the Culture

ED Surge

Perhaps it is because I am Mexican American and colonization is a part of my ancestry. In this book, she speaks of the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address presented aloud to school children. I have always felt connected to Indigenous peoples.

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Norway law decrees: Let childhood be childhood

The Hechinger Report

million people , about 82 percent of whom are of Norwegian ancestry, across a space roughly the size of Montana. I want [children] to like being in kindergarten,” she said, as we sat in her office, surrounded by rows of early childhood pedagogy books and a pile of donated, toddler-sized skis.

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Are Neanderthals and Homo sapiens Separate Species?

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1302653110 Summary : Uses dental morphology to reassess speciation events and shared ancestry between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens. Book Chapter : Neanderthals Revisited , 2006. Journal : PNAS , 2013. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.1302653110 Neanderthals, Homo sapiens , and the Question of Species in Paleoanthropology Authors : Tattersall, I.

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Ancient Iberian Slate Plaques: Early Genealogical Records?

Anthropology.net

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. Book : De Gruyter , 2008. Book Chapter : Material Mnemonics: Everyday Memory in Prehistoric Europe , 2010.

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People Are Not Peas—Why Genetics Education Needs an Overhaul

Sapiens

Across time, past humans frequently migrated , mated with, or displaced people they encountered in other regions—resulting in a tangled tree of human ancestry. But sickle cell anemia is neither unique to nor characteristic of people with African ancestry. Standard U.S. This distinction may seem like splitting hairs.

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