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Crossing evolutionary paths: New research finds different hominin species coexisted
3 weeks, 5 days ago

Crossing evolutionary paths: New research finds different hominin species coexisted

Salon  

The bones they found in the sand were a clue that something more was buried beneath the surface. But these remarkably preserved footprints were the first to indicate that two different species of hominins — including Homo erectus, which is a direct ancestor to humans, and Paranthropus boisei, which was a different species that also descended from the ape ancestor …

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The Anthropologists: A Tapestry of Modern Love and Life
1 month, 3 weeks ago

The Anthropologists: A Tapestry of Modern Love and Life

The Hindu  

The Anthropologists is a novel about a couple living abroad in an unspecified foreign city. Asya, the protagonist, is a documentary filmmaker who is trying to find her rhythm in life. The novel follows Asya and Manu as they visit potential homes, meet their friends, and talk to their grandmother and mother over video-calls. The book is peppered with observations …

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This App Set Out to Fight Pesticides. After VCs Stepped In, Now It Helps Sell Them
2 months ago

This App Set Out to Fight Pesticides. After VCs Stepped In, Now It Helps Sell Them

Wired  

This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, a nonprofit journalism organization. For smallholding farmers in developing nations, who grow more than a third of the world’s food, having Plantix on your phone was like having a highly accurate plant pathologist in your back pocket, one who would also present afflicted farmers with options for …

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Military labs do the detective work to identify soldiers decades after they died in World War II
6 months, 4 weeks ago

Military labs do the detective work to identify soldiers decades after they died in World War II

Associated Press  

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. But a federal lab tucked away above the bowling alley at Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha and a sister lab in Hawaii are steadily answering those lingering questions, aiming to offer 200 families per year the chance to honor their relatives with a proper burial. “They may not even have been alive when that …

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‘Children of the Ganges’ - the boatmen of India’s Varanasi
8 months ago

‘Children of the Ganges’ - the boatmen of India’s Varanasi

Al Jazeera  

Varanasi, India - “Hum paani ke jeev hain. Sahni belongs to Varanasi’s community of approximately 8,000 mallah, the boatmen whose lives are deeply intertwined with the Ganges - a river considered sacred in India and which they hold in profound reverence. Varanasi has long fascinated historians, anthropologists, artists and storytellers and is often celebrated as one of the world’s oldest …

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No gifts at kids’ birthday parties? This trend is not for me.
1 year, 3 months ago

No gifts at kids’ birthday parties? This trend is not for me.

Slate  

Last April, I opened my email and an invitation floated out of a digital envelope: a parade of giraffes, announcing Hazel’s third birthday party. They don’t need more things, unlike other gift-grubbing children.’ ” The first mention of “no gifts” kids’ parties I could find started appearing on mommy blogs around 2013, where blogs like Hint Mama started offering tips …

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Death toll from Maui wildfires drops from 115 to 97 with 31 people still missing
1 year, 3 months ago

Death toll from Maui wildfires drops from 115 to 97 with 31 people still missing

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The death toll from …

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Barbie, review: Ryan Gosling steals the show in the most improbable triumph of the year
1 year, 5 months ago

Barbie, review: Ryan Gosling steals the show in the most improbable triumph of the year

The Telegraph  

Anthropologists believe there may be tribes living in the farthest reaches of the Amazon basin who have yet to catch sight of the marketing campaign for the new Barbie film, but for the rest of us the damn thing has been melting our eyeballs for weeks. So it’s an unexpected pleasure to report that Greta Gerwig’s film – while still …

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Excerpt: Hills of Paradise by Mineke Schipper
1 year, 5 months ago

Excerpt: Hills of Paradise by Mineke Schipper

Hindustan Times  

A lack of the characteristics of the other sex can be experienced as especially harrowing in societies where one sex is more valued or enjoys more privileges than the other. In their morning prayer, orthodox Jewish men openly express their gratitude: “Blessed are you, Lord our God, Ruler of the Universe, who has not made me a woman.” A common …

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AI finds mysterious ‘alien’ shapes hidden in Peruvian desert
1 year, 6 months ago

AI finds mysterious ‘alien’ shapes hidden in Peruvian desert

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy AI has discovered four mysterious …

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Native Americans demand accountability for ancestral remains identified at Dartmouth College
1 year, 7 months ago

Native Americans demand accountability for ancestral remains identified at Dartmouth College

Associated Press  

BOSTON — As a citizen of the Quapaw Nation, Ahnili Johnson-Jennings has always seen Dartmouth College as the university for Native American students. It’s hard to see the college in this old way where they were taking Native remains and using them for their own benefit,” said Johnson-Jennings, a senior and co-president of Native Americans at Dartmouth. More than three …

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Native American remains discovered at Dartmouth College spark calls for accountability
1 year, 7 months ago

Native American remains discovered at Dartmouth College spark calls for accountability

The Independent  

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Great Nicobar project will not evict tribes, says Centre
1 year, 8 months ago

Great Nicobar project will not evict tribes, says Centre

The Hindu  

Displacement of tribespeople will not be allowed to make room for the ₹72,000 crore Great Nicobar island project, the Ministry of Tribal Affairs told the Rajya Sabha on March 29. However, the Tribal Affairs Ministry said that the utilisation of tribal reserve area will be subject to the interests of the local tribespeople living in the area, especially the Shompen …

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Reconstruction of Nabataean woman to help understanding of ancient civilisation
1 year, 10 months ago

Reconstruction of Nabataean woman to help understanding of ancient civilisation

The Independent  

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Anthropological Survey of India builds tribal hut replicas to promote unique heritage
2 years, 1 month ago

Anthropological Survey of India builds tribal hut replicas to promote unique heritage

The Hindu  

From a distinctive beehive-shaped hut of the Jarawa tribe, to a Shompen hut crafted with leaves of junglee supari with a cage for wild pigs built beneath it, and a Nicobarese hut made using the thin stems of local cane covered by thick dry grasses -- each offers a peek into the lives of tribal communities that most Indians will …

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Gender activists pushing to stop anthropologists from marking human remains as male or female
2 years, 5 months ago

Gender activists pushing to stop anthropologists from marking human remains as male or female

Op India  

The woke culture is starting to affect science. While a bioarchaeologist might identify a set of remains as “probably female”, it is understood that the gender of an individual is never necessarily the same as their sex, and that gender is a whole spectrum we’ve barely begun to unpack.” Essentially, the woke concepts of ‘gender identity’ are being brought into …

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Ashes of 8,000 WWII victims found in two Poland mass graves
2 years, 5 months ago

Ashes of 8,000 WWII victims found in two Poland mass graves

Associated Press  

WARSAW, Poland — Special investigators in Poland say they have found two mass graves containing the ashes of at least 8,000 Poles slain by the Nazi during World War II in forest executions that the Nazis later tried to hide by incinerating the bodies and planting trees on the burial pits. Starting in March 1944, the bodies that the occupying …

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The joy of no sex: Study of Tibetan monks shows advantages of celibacy
2 years, 6 months ago

The joy of no sex: Study of Tibetan monks shows advantages of celibacy

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A study of celibacy among monks in Tibetan Buddhist monasteries has …

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Meet the brokers who keep Mumbai running
2 years, 6 months ago

Meet the brokers who keep Mumbai running

Live Mint  

Bombay Brokers, edited by Lisa Björkman, uses an imaginative and unique way to look at a city that finds constant representation in pop culture. As Dalpat, one of the people profiled in the book, says in the context of getting water certificates: Some things are just acceptable on “humanitarian grounds”. One of the first “brokers” Björkman met was Rasheed, a …

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The mysterious people of the Caribbean
2 years, 9 months ago

The mysterious people of the Caribbean

BBC  

The mysterious people of the Caribbean Dave Carr/Getty Images A rare archaeological discovery on the Dominican Republic's secluded Samaná Peninsula could unlock the mystery behind the Caribbean's little-known pre-Arawak past. Francesco Genchi/Sapienza University of Rome El Pozito is the Dominican Republic's biggest Archaic discovery in 50 years For 2.5 weeks in September 2021, Coppa's team from Sapienza University of Rome, …

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Bestsellers List Sunday, December 26
3 years ago

Bestsellers List Sunday, December 26

LA Times  

SoCal Bestsellers Hardcover Fiction 1. The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles In Nebraska 1954, a juvenile parolee inadvertently helps two convicts escape and gets tangled in their plans. Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr Intertwined stories of teenagers in the 1453 siege of Constantinople, at an attack on a library in present-day Idaho and aboard a starship in deep space. …

Govt Fears Pvt Sector Quota Demand: JDU, RJD in rare Coming Together as Caste Census Tilts Political Axis
3 years, 2 months ago

Govt Fears Pvt Sector Quota Demand: JDU, RJD in rare Coming Together as Caste Census Tilts Political Axis

News 18  

The demand for a caste-based census goes above and beyond electoral politics, RJD leader Manoj Kumar Jha and JD leader KC Tyagi told News18.com in an exclusive joint interview. Jha, a Rajya Sabha MP, said the central government is refusing to go for caste-based census since the numbers would bolster demands for reservation in the private section. Edited excerpts: The …

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Israeli Scientists Discover New Kind of Early Humans 'Nesher Ramla Homo' Dating Back 130,000 Years
3 years, 5 months ago

Israeli Scientists Discover New Kind of Early Humans 'Nesher Ramla Homo' Dating Back 130,000 Years

News 18  

Scientists say they have discovered a new kind of early human after studying pieces of fossilized bone dug up at a site used by a cement plant in central Israel. “The discovery of a new type of Homo is of great scientific importance,” said Israel Hershkovitz of Tel Aviv University, one of the leaders of the team that analyzed the …

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Is polyamory simpler than monogamy?
3 years, 6 months ago

Is polyamory simpler than monogamy?

Live Mint  

In one of the episodes of ‘Love Aaj Kal’, we had a nineteen-year-old, who was polyamorous. It’s no surprise that this utopian vision is gathering a growing army of the disenchanted in its wake.’ 'The L-Word' is about modern love: from ghosting, polyamory, love in the times of social media to more every-day problems like heartbreak, infidelity and more They …

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