The Dead Must Be Counted
An unknown number of people who die from COVID-19, like migrants who die during perilous journeys, are left out of governments' official death counts.
Migration
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What Does Baseball’s Bilingualism Reveal?
A linguistic anthropologist who is also a baseball aficionado reflects on what can be learned from how language mashups play out on and off the baseball diamond.
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Is the Pandemic a Chance to Challenge Global Inequality?
A Pakistani anthropologist who studies the perilous journeys of irregular migrants argues for reimagining ways to close the gap between the rich and poor, particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Coronavirus Is Killing the Hope of Asylum
The pandemic has deepened the crisis for the millions of migrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers who have nowhere to turn in the face of closed ports and seas emptied of rescue boats.
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Will Asia Rewrite Human History?
Politics, geography, and tradition have long focused archaeological attention on the evolution of Homo sapiens in Europe and Africa. Now, new research is challenging old ideas by showing that early human migrations unfolded across Asia far earlier than previously known.
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Neanderthals Traversed Vast Distances
Stone tools reveal the expansive regions connecting Europe to Asia covered by our explorer cousins.