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. The very notion that one could segregate people into groups that roughly approximate ancestry assumes those ancestral groups have remained separate throughout history.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Across time, past humans frequently migrated , mated with, or displaced people they encountered in other regions—resulting in a tangled tree of human ancestry. At the American Museum of Natural History, a 2001 digital representation of the human genome presents color coding for the four chemical components of DNA.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 11, 2024

By examining variations in Neanderthal ancestry across different times and locations, they estimated the timing and duration of interbreeding events. Neandertal ancestry through time: Insights from genomes of ancient and present-day humans. The research team focused on the amount of Neanderthal DNA present in these samples. 1 Iasi, L.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 23, 2024

Introduction A new study, recently released as a preprint on bioRxiv , sharpens the timeline for this crucial period in human history. For instance, ancient individuals from Oase and Bacho Kiro showed very recent Neanderthal ancestry, suggesting frequent interactions with Neanderthals, even if their lineages did not persist.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 7, 2024

A view of the excavation site at an Avar cemetery in Rákóczifalva, Hungary Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest Unraveling the Mysteries of the Avar Empire The Avars, originating from Central Asia, embarked on a historic migration to Eastern Europe, leaving an indelible mark on the region's history.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Each discovery reshapes our understanding, challenging erstwhile beliefs, and heralding a paradigm shift in our comprehension of history. Notably, miscalculations in dating methodologies have led to significant misconceptions in human evolutionary history.

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Sapiens

MARCH 5, 2024

Both positions allow for the occasional interbreeding that has resulted in a little bit of Neanderthal being present in many of us, especially those of European and East Asian ancestry. MYSTERY TOOLMAKERS Other transitional Middle-Upper Paleolithic stone tool industries have a long history of the same problem—we’re not sure who made them.

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