Sapiens

OCTOBER 2, 2024

schools stokes misconceptions about race and human diversity. On the bus, Lewontin turned his attention to humans. His results have been replicated time and again over the last 50 years, as datasets have ballooned from a handful of proteins to hundreds of thousands of human genomes.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The findings, published in Nature Communications 1 , reveal a wealth of information about the boy's ancestry, physical traits, health, and the environment in which he lived, offering a rare glimpse into the lives of prehistoric humans. Genome sequence of a 45,000-year-old modern human from western Siberia."

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: Reagan said she has done long-term projects before, but never something so important to her personally and never as the centerpiece of an entire class. “It Sometimes kids found unexpected ancestries – like one white student who found an ancestor labelled “mulatto” on an old Census. Weekly Update.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

The study suggests that Neanderthals organized in smaller, more isolated groups, while early modern humans maintained broader social connections, which may have contributed to their survival. This genome is from a distinct lineage of late Neanderthals, adding new information to the complex history of the species. Photo: Xavier Muth.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The Oakhurst rock shelter, nestled in the cliffs of South Africa’s southern coast, has long been a focal point for archaeologists due to its wealth of artifacts and human remains. These findings offer a new perspective on human population stability and cultural evolution in southern Africa. 1 Gretzinger, J., Gibbon, V.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

There’s an ugly history of proponents of eugenics , who believe in reshaping humanity by breeding “superior traits” and removing “inferior traits,” justifying their thinking with genetics. There is also an enormous shortcoming in the datasets used for this research: Virtually all are built with DNA from people of European ancestry.

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Sapiens

MARCH 4, 2025

Through this work, drawing on knowledge from human skeletal biology, anatomy, and archaeology, we often confront the immense social and racial inequalities that can play a role in the circumstances of ones death. We are humans asking questions about the world around us. and around the world.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2024

million people , about 82 percent of whom are of Norwegian ancestry, across a space roughly the size of Montana. Programs must be rooted in values including forgiveness, equality, solidarity and respect for human worth. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report To be sure, there are important contexts behind each country’s approach.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Human teeth are small marvels of biology, carrying genetic signatures that reflect millennia of evolutionary change. Dr. Kaustubh Adhikari, a UCL researcher and one of the study’s authors, emphasizes the significance of teeth in understanding humanity's past.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

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. How did their nomadic culture evolve? Now, a groundbreaking genetic study by Fortes-Lima et al.,

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

For visitors to the exhibit and those who access the array of resources on the projects website, the information brings cutting-edge, eye-opening knowledge about race and racism. Remaining also are the human stories of those harmed by racism. Remaining also are the human stories of those harmed by racism.

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