Who were the Sogdians, the enigmatic Silk Road merchants?
Renowned for their sense of commerce and diplomacy along the Silk Road from Antiquity to the High Middle Ages, the Sogdians ...
Genetic heritage from the Stone Age protects against today's chronic inflammatory bowel diseases
In Europe alone, approximately 2 million people live with chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), and their incidence has ...
Chinese study tracing Okinawan roots to home of Confucius hits a nerve in Japan
Research implying most Okinawans have Shandong ancestry risks further straining relations between Tokyo and Beijing.
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Genetic Study: Ukraine, Ancient Human Mobility Hub
Historical inhabitants of the region that is now Ukraine have had diverse European, Asian and Middle Eastern ancestry for ...
New study decodes when the Nicobarese people came to the island
Discover the genetic heritage of the Nicobar Archipelago in the Indian Ocean through a recent study in human genetics.
All blonde-haired people come from this beautiful corner of the planet – it's not Europe
Though the majority of blonde-haired people today come from Europe, the unique hair colour originated in a land that is a ...
History of the Fulani, one of the largest pastoral populations in Africa, unraveled in study
Researchers have uncovered the origins and genetic diversity of the Fulani, one of Africa's largest pastoral populations. The ...
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Ancient human genomes offer clues about the earliest migrations out of Africa
All of these individuals carry in their genomes signals of the original ‘introgression’ event in which genetic material ... of further instances of admixture in earlier generations of their ...
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New Evidence Complicates the Story of the Peopling of the Americas
They also supported the claims of Indigenous scholars who have long attested that their ancestors predated the Clovis, statements bolstered by recent findings from geneticists who had started using a ...