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Resurrecting the Dire Wolf, or Clickbait Science for the 21st Century

Anthropology 365

On the May 12th, 2025 cover of Time Magazine , you will see a picture of a white wolf below the bold word Extinct slashed through with a red block. Their morphological resemblance to grey wolves thus results from convergent evolution rather than shared ancestry ( Perri et al. Below it reads “This is Remus. He’s a dire wolf.

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Illegibility and Immobility in the Social Lives of Muslim Migrants in Japan

Anthropology News

Foreign residents and Japanese of mixed ancestry try to pass as Japanese to avoid the stigma of being a foreigner. Growing up in 1960s Palestine, heused totranslate TIME Magazine articles into Arabic with his friends. However, not all foreigners are treated equally in Japan. Hamza is fluent in English.

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Rethinking Racialization

Political Science Now

” In 2019, The New York Times Magazine launched The 1619 Project , a collaborative historiographic work that sought to recenter the role of slavery and anti-Black racism in the American founding and the countrys subsequent history. For this reason, for Salgado, sixteenth-century blood purity statutes should be understood as racial.