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Genetic analysis of a recently-analyzed population in Africa demonstrates genetic links may remain even as languages are lost.

Scientists have found a population of people in Africa‘s Namib desert that were believed to have disappeared 50 years ago. Anthropologists initially believed that the community disappeared when the languages spoken in the region died out. However, experts are now realizing that this group kept its genetic identity when their native language disappeared.

A research team was able to locate human populations in an African desert believed to have disappeared more than 50 years ago.

Over the past half-decade, ancient DNA research has revealed some surprising aspects to our evolutionary history during the past 50,000 years.

Dang Liu, Albert Min-Shan Ko and Mark Stoneking collected genome-wide data from 55 individuals from seven Taiwanese Austronesian groups and two Han-Taiwanese groups to study the genetic structure of Taiwan, the point of origin for all Austronesian-speaking peoples.

A human genetic study links the first major expansion of humans on the island with the loss of large vertebrates.

An international team of experts has sequenced the DNA from 16 ancient people and found that a group of Indonesian islands were a melting pot for humans thousands of years ago. The Wallacean islands, in what is now Eastern Indonesia, have a long...

The Wallacean islands, in what is now Eastern Indonesia, have a long and rich history of being home to modern humans going back thousands of years.

Chasing quality, not clicks

Posted on May 26, 2021 | Views: 225 cwebb2021-05-25T21:02:13-07:00 by Ian Gilligan:  What if the need for fabric, not food, in the face of a changing climate is what first tipped humanity towards agriculture? rchaeologists and other scientists are beginning to unravel the story of our most intimate technology: clothing. They’re learning when and why our ancestors first started to wear clothes, and how their adoption was crucial to the evolutionary success of our ancestors when they...