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Tracing the Genetic Threads of Wallacea’s Complex History

Anthropology.net

A recent study sheds new light on its human history, highlighting the deep impact of migrations from New Guinea into this region approximately 3,500 years ago. The region, home to immense linguistic and genetic diversity, has often puzzled researchers seeking to untangle its complex history. A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia."

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The Ocean Floor Jawbone That’s Redrawing Denisovan History

Anthropology.net

Still, the geography offers clues. Denisovan ancestry and population history of early East Asians. Nobody Knows — Yet. The fossil defies easy dating. Seawater had long since stripped away its collagen, eliminating possibilities for radiocarbon analysis. Nature , 561, 113–116. link] Massilani, D., link] 1 Tsutaya, T.,

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

Anthropology.net

Despite differences in time, geography, and material culture, many human groups developed the same set of knots—again and again. “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.

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Voices at the Center: Asian American Educators Rising

ED Surge

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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Amy Livingston’s Unexpected Vocation: Teaching America’s Story

Teaching American History

He did, and Livingston soon found herself sitting in an introductory college course in US history. The next semester, she took two more US history classes, then realized she’d found her major. When a position teaching geography to ninth graders at a private high school opened, she took it. The professor’s lecture fascinated her.

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

Anthropology.net

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. Now, a groundbreaking genetic study by Fortes-Lima et al., But as this study shows, the answer lies much closer to home.

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Mapping the Genome of a Multi-Ethnic Nation

Anthropology.net

In a quiet room humming with server stacks, a genomic dataset from nearly 300,000 Americans is doing something anthropologists have long tried to accomplish: capturing a living mosaic of human ancestry at a scale once unimaginable. Average ancestry proportions are shown above each group, and numbers of participants are shown below each group.