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‘New story unfolding’: Ancient finger bones found in Asia force a rethinking of human migration

Sara Toth Stub | 
Politics, geography, and tradition have long focused archaeological attention on the evolution of Homo sapiens in Europe and Africa. Now, ...
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Podcast: Mapping Humanity—How modern genetics is changing criminal justice, personalized medicine, and our identities

Cameron English, Josh Rappoport | 
Innovations in genetics are already changing our lives for the better, and will continue to do so. Using gene-editing technology, ...
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For those with limited genetic knowledge, at-home ancestry tests fuel misconceptions that genes dictate race

Cathryn Prince | 
University of Pennsylvania sociologist Wendy Roth [wondered] whether these do-it-yourself tests also fueled the idea that genes dictate race. After ...
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What the ‘lady in the well’ tells us about ancient population movement in the Middle East

Will Dunham | 
The bones of a woman of Central Asian descent found at the bottom of a deep well after a violent ...
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Podcast: Tracing humanity’s roots: uncovering history and genetic diversity in Africa

We explore the genetic diversity in the birthplace of humanity and discover the cultural and historical stories written in the ...
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Invading armies not to blame for fall of ancient Andean cultures, genetic analysis shows

An international team has conducted what it says is the first in-depth, wide-scale study of the genomic history of ancient ...
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Why were these 1,000-year-old skulls shaped like ‘sci-fi aliens’?

Mindy Weisberger | 
Tight wrapping in childhood produced deliberately deformed skulls ...
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Part of the forensic ‘jigsaw puzzle’: Tooth shape offers insights into a deceased person’s genetic makeup

Joe Pinkstone | 
A study found that some characteristics of dental remains — such as crown groove patterns, cusp size, number of roots, ...
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When a consumer genetics test pushes your ‘right to know’ against someone else’s ‘right to privacy’

Amy Dockser Marcus | 
Stephen Wald took a home DNA test in 2018, hoping to explore his family ancestry with his two young children ...
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Podcast: ‘How to argue with a racist’—geneticist Adam Rutherford challenges what he calls ‘pseudoscience’ in genetics and politics

Adam Rutherford explains how to argue with a racist, hunting for the ghosts in the human genome, and recreating the ...
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Podcast: Latest discoveries in genetics, archaeology reveal early history of the British people

Georgia Mills, Kat Arney | 
What's the real story behind the romantic myths about the Celts? And what can modern genetic and anthropological techniques tell ...
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Distinctive ‘Habsburg jaw’ of medieval kings and queens was created by centuries of inbreeding, study suggests

Yasemin Saplakoglu | 
Many of the kings and queens of the Spanish Habsburg dynasty, which ruled across Europe from the 16th to the ...
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Inherited Neanderthal, Denisovan DNA may help with our metabolism, immunity and diet

George Dvorsky | 
Neanderthals and Denisovans went extinct some 35,000 to 40,000 years ago, but not before these closely related hominins interbred with ...
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Tackling Stone Age stereotypes and misconceptions including this: They made tools out of more than just stone

Stephen Nash | 
Although most depictions of Stone Age hunters are male, women and children played a huge part in the creation and ...
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Scientists reconstruct yet-to-be-found skull of humans’ last common ancestor entirely through computer imaging

Carl Zimmer | 
[R]esearchers like Dr. [Aurélien] Mounier are using computers and mathematical techniques to reconstruct the appearance of fossils they have yet ...
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Unraveling the genetic mystery of Skeleton Lake, an ancient Indian site filled with hundreds of human bones

Gemma Tarlach | 
At the mysterious Skeleton Lake in northern India, the dead are talking, revealing surprises through centuries-old DNA. And it’s not ...
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Biblical Philistines came from southern Europe, suggests analysis of ancient DNA

Megan Gannon | 
“[P]hilistine” is still sometimes lobbed as an insult for an uncultured or crass person. But who were the Philistines, exactly? ...
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Who’s your daddy (or mommy)? What’s the chance you inherited DNA from Caligula, Genghis Khan or Henry I?

Lynn Kozlowski | 
Genealogy is the second most popular hobby in the United States ...
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DNA found in 10,000-year-old ‘chewing gum’ sheds light on ancient Sweden

Kiona Smith | 
In the 1990s, archaeologists recovered a few chewed-up lumps of birch bark pitch, some of which still held fingerprints and ...
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Was our brain growth kick-started by ancestors scavenging bone marrow from animal carcasses?

Richard Kemeny | 
A new theory challenges assumptions about when and how our ancestors altered their behaviors to boost brainpower ...
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‘The broken promise of anonymity’? Bioethicist’s call to guard identity of sperm and egg donors is misguided

Ricki Lewis | 
Dr. Pennings’ opinion fails to capture the complexity of donation ...
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Stonehenge mystery solved! DNA analysis tells us where builders came from

Paul Rincon | 
The ancestors of the people who built Stonehenge travelled west across the Mediterranean before reaching Britain, a study has shown ...
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Purebred? How humans invented the modern concept of ‘dog breeds’

Michael Worboys | 
Modern purebred dog breeds were created in Victorian Britain ...
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Exploring the havoc that can be unleashed by consumer ancestry tests

Ricki Lewis | 
On what fraction of a human genome do the consumer DNA companies base these deductions that can shatter lives? ...
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Glimpse into enslaved woman’s life offered by DNA found in clay pipe at Maryland plantation

Kiona Smith | 
Clay pipes used for smoking were so common in the 1700s and 1800s that it’s not very remarkable to find ...
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We face a host of new ethical questions including: Who actually owns your DNA?

Robert Graboyes | 
DNA is one of the greatest medical discoveries ever. Using the tools of contemporary genetics, physicians and scientists can explore ...
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Tracking Neanderthal DNA in modern humans: There’s been little change in 45,000 years

Diana Kwon | 
Neanderthals, modern humans’ closest evolutionary relatives, have been extinct for thousands of years. But due to interbreeding between the two ...
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