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Tracing the Genetic Threads of Wallacea’s Complex History

Anthropology.net

Wallacea, the sprawling chain of islands in eastern Indonesia that includes Timor-Leste, has long been a crossroads of cultures, languages, and genetics. Gludhug Ariyo Purnomo from the University of Adelaide, who led the research, noted that the findings emphasize the importance of West Papua as a bio-cultural hub.

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Voices at the Center: Asian American Educators Rising

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Despite hailing from vastly different geographies and circumstances, the dozens of educators we talked with shared that they often struggled in their own school communities with feeling both hyper-visible and invisible as Asian Americans. A participant at a Black Lives Matter protest in Las Vegas on May 30, 2020. on March 21, 2021.

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The Fulani Enigma: Unraveling the Deep Genetic History of Africa’s Legendary Pastoralists

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How did their nomadic culture evolve? published in The American Journal of Human Genetics 1 , has provided fresh insights into the complex origins of the Fulani, tracing their ancestry back to an ancient, lost world—the Green Sahara. Where did they come from? Now, a groundbreaking genetic study by Fortes-Lima et al.,

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