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. But sickle cell anemia is neither unique to nor characteristic of people with African ancestry. This distinction may seem like splitting hairs.

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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. Life history and ancestry of the late Upper Palaeolithic infant from Grotta delle Mura, Italy.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Sometimes kids found unexpected ancestries – like one white student who found an ancestor labelled “mulatto” on an old Census. Brunelle hopes to broach more difficult conversations about race and ancestry in future years. She didn’t know her family had mixed-race heritage. And her book has become an immediate family treasure.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

This caustic combination of biased or incomplete information and a lack in public awareness very easily fuels damaging stereotypes of Asians as perpetually and dangerously foreign and “taking over” what are seen as limited resources, especially during times of social and economic instability and widening gaps in wealth and income inequality.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Despite the technical challenges posed by DNA degradation, the researchers successfully sequenced the genomes, revealing valuable information about the inhabitants' ancestry and genetic stability. This extensive record is rare for South Africa, where most ancient burials have yielded only isolated finds. 1 Gretzinger, J., Gibbon, V.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Perhaps it is because I am Mexican American and colonization is a part of my ancestry. I have always felt connected to Indigenous peoples. However, during the seminar, the facilitators jumped directly into piloting GBL activities with attendees.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

This genome is from a distinct lineage of late Neanderthals, adding new information to the complex history of the species. Inbreeding and Isolation: The Genetic Downfall of Neanderthals The study, led by researchers at the Globe Institute, examined the genetic material of a Neanderthal male found in southern France.

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Life and Landscapes

JANUARY 16, 2025

He knew very little about his ancestry. And in Lincoln’s case, such useful information was politically relevant to his career! . “My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families… second families, perhaps I should say. There was good reason for his concern.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2017

Almost half of multiracial students aged 15 to 18 report having black ancestry, and black-white combinations are the most frequent interracial origin in the age group. You may marry into white privilege, but the findings around income also remind us of the informal tax levied against those who chose to love differently.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

For now, the science is almost entirely based on data collected from people with European ancestry, which limits the conclusions that can be drawn from it, so researchers feel that they’ve at least temporarily sidestepped the issue. There could be other ways of using this genetic information. von Stumm said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

In 1870, students with Asian ancestry were officially allowed in any school, but often weren’t welcome in them, leaving most Asian American kids to learn in community-run and missionary schools. San Francisco segregated its schools from its earliest days.

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Sapiens

MARCH 4, 2025

Pure objectivity is a fallacy: Lived experience, cultural contexts, and the particularities of each case all impact and inform the work of forensic scientists. In fact, scholarship demonstrates how propagation of the objectivity myth is damaging to science and is a product of White, cisgender, abled, and heterosexual privilege.

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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. Not all of Norway’s early childhood researchers are convinced that the country’s informal approach to learning works as its demographics evolve. Norway, a democracy with a figurehead monarchy, is home to about 5.5

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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. 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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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 18, 2024

.” How the Study Was Conducted To uncover the genetic basis for tooth dimensions, the researchers turned to a diverse dataset of 882 Colombian volunteers of mixed European, Native American, and African ancestry. Genetic insights into tooth development could one day inform diagnostic tools or gene therapies for dental anomalies.

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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. I dont know what legend in my ancestry broke free from this bondage of pain. Whips that tore off our skins and hate began our lamenting.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Saykhamphone, who has Laotian and Nigerian ancestry, said there are not many other Black or Hispanic students in her accelerated International Baccalaureate (IB) classes, even though 85 percent of the student body is Black, Hispanic or Asian. “We We want to be able to learn like the correct kind of information about our history.”

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