Tags: Genetics - SAPIENS

Anthropology Magazine

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Is a “Sweet Tooth” Genetic?

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How Diverse Was Medieval Britain?

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Will a Nobel Prize Make Paleogenomics More Accountable?

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The Cosmic Serpent

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Athletics, IQ, Health: Three Myths of Race

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What Ancient DNA Reveals About Life in Africa 20,000 Years Ago

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A Genetic Chronicle of the First Peoples in the Americas

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Does DNA Simplify or Complicate Repatriation Claims?

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The Humans We Haven’t Met Yet

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Five Breakthrough Signs of Early Peoples in the Americas

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What Indigenous Languages Reveal About Bear Genetics

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Culture—Not Genetics—Was More Salient for Anglo-Saxons

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Who Is the Nesher Ramla Homo?

human genome project Neanderthals - Humans have more than 3 billion letter pairs of DNA in their genome, and only about 0.1 percent of that differs between any two people.

Mapping Human and Neanderthal Genomes

Indigenous Caribbean - Volunteers and students from the United States and the Bahamas helped excavate the dunes where the Lucayan ancestral remains were found.

Who First Made the Caribbean Home?

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The Dawn of CRISPR Mutants