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

Source: Natural History Museum, London Rajiv McCoy, a computational geneticist at Johns Hopkins University, remarks, "It’s probably the most comprehensive picture we have to date of Neanderthal gene flow into modern human populations." Neandertal ancestry through time: Insights from genomes of ancient and present-day humans.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 20, 2024

Image credit: The Danish National Museum. Modern Europeans, with diverse genetic ancestries, carry traits influenced by the hunter-gatherers, farmers, and pastoralists. Through DNA analysis of him and other ancient human remains, a narrative of migration waves to Europe spanning the last 45,000 years has emerged. 1 Allentoft, M.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 7, 2024

A golden figure from the 7th century found at the Avar cemetery in Rákóczifalva, Hungary Damjanich János Museum, Szolnok This discrepancy suggests a patrilocal system, wherein women relocated to their husbands' communities after marriage.

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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. However, there are many challenges to exploring this distant time.

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