Most significant were indigenous peoples’ concerns that the results of the Genographic Project would contradict indigenous groups’ traditional understanding of their origins or history.
-1, stupid.
Tag: history
Fossil Rivers
what the Army Corps of Engineers discovered while producing these maps is that the Mississippi River has changed channel completely – and it has done this 100s, even 1000s, of times.
Underwear created literacy
Everyone thinks the printing press led to increased literacy among the average man in the middle ages, but that just might not be the case. Dr Marco Mostert is instead suggesting that the availability of cheap paper was the main reason more reading material became available. While this isn’t surprising, the source of the new cheap paper is. These rags came from discarded clothes, which cost much less than the very expensive parchment which was previously used for books.
Apple Evolution
i have worked with or owned a fair amount of them
Ape altruism
altruism goes back as far as 6M years
the foundations for non-zero sum games were laid early, apparently
Unstoppable Globalization
The biggest migration in human history. The entire flow of African slaves was less than 15m, spread over decades. This is 100m in less than a generation and many more to come.
1 ma west Europe tooth
Scientists in Spain have found a tooth from a distant human ancestor that is more than 1 ma old.
DNA Heritage
I submitted my DNA anonymously to IBM for a research project, and from the mutations in my Y-chromosome alone, they identified me as haplotype N LLY22G, which pegs the Uralic language of my family and the locale of northern Scandinavia / Eastern Europe. With only my DNA, they identified my family origin on the map above to within a few km, and traced it back to the veritable “Adam” in Africa, from whom we are all descendants.
I wonder how granular these will get eventually. The beginning of the tree is well-known and comparatively easy. Still, welcome to total history beta 1.
2022-03-04:
8 ka BP, 17 women reproduced for every 1 man. An analysis of modern DNA uncovers a rough dating scene after the advent of agriculture. A member of the research team hypothesizes that only a few men accumulated lots of wealth and power, leaving nothing for others. These men could then pass their wealth on to their sons, perpetuating this pattern of elitist reproductive success. Then the numbers of men reproducing, compared to women, rose again. “Maybe more and more people started being successful.”. In more recent history, as a global average, 5 women reproduced for every 1 man.
Atlas of the Human Journey
wow. this is very very cool.
The World Without Us
Days after our disappearance, pumps keeping Manhattan’s subways dry would fail, tunnels would flood, soil under streets would sluice away and the foundations of towering skyscrapers built to last for centuries would start to crumble.
2013-10-10:
Gregor J. Rothfuss 