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"Notably, we reveal long IBD sharing between Corded Ware and Yamnaya groups, indicating that the Yamnaya herders of the Pontic-Caspian Steppe and the Steppe-related ancestry in various European Corded Ware groups share substantial co-ancestry within only a few hundred years."

Ringbauer, H., Huang, Y., Akbari, A. et al. Accurate detection of identity-by-descent segments in human ancient DNA. Nat Genet 56, 143–151 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41588-023-015 @science @biology

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"Our analyses show that although societies that share similar ecologies are more likely to share cultural traits, the Eurasian continent is not significantly more ecologically homogeneous than other continental regions."

Chira, A.M., Gray, R.D. and Botero, C.A. (2024) ‘Geography is not destiny: A quantitative test of Diamond’s axis of orientation hypothesis’, Evolutionary Human Sciences, 6, p. e5. doi: doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2023.34 @geography @anthropology @biology @science

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"Since 2019, we have been maintaining the Allen Ancient DNA Resource (AADR), which aims to provide an up-to-date, curated version of the world’s published ancient human DNA data, represented at more than a million single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at which almost all ancient individuals have been assayed."

Mallick, S., Micco, A., Mah, M. et al. The Allen Ancient DNA Resource (AADR) a curated compendium of ancient human genomes. Sci Data 11, 182 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-030 @science @biology

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"The scientists’ results show that classical computing can be reconfigured to perform faster and more accurate calculations than state-of-the-art quantum computers." nyu.edu/about/news-publication @science

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🇩🇰 "While the two major shifts in Danish Mesolithic and Neolithic material culture may have had different drivers and causes, the outcomes were ultimately the same: new people arrived and rapidly took over the territory. With this arrival, the local landscape was modified to fit the lifestyle and culture of the immigrants. This is the hallmark of the Anthropocene, observed here in high resolution in prehistoric Denmark."

Allentoft, M.E., Sikora, M., Fischer, A. et al. 100 ancient genomes show repeated population turnovers in Neolithic Denmark. Nature 625, 329–337 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-068 @science @archaeodons

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"Here we use an ice core record from grounded ice at Skytrain Ice Rise to constrain the timing and speed of early Holocene ice sheet retreat."

Grieman, M.M., Nehrbass-Ahles, C., Hoffmann, H.M. et al. Abrupt Holocene ice loss due to thinning and ungrounding in the Weddell Sea Embayment. Nat. Geosci. (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-013 @science

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"Their AI is able to recognize patterns in complex data sets and to formulate them in a physical theory. " fz-juelich.de/en/news/archive/ @science @physics @ai

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"The main objective of this scientific study was to see whether AI could be used in a scientifically appropriate manner to improve the scientific writing process. Indeed, AI reduced the time for writing but had significant inaccuracies. The latter necessitates that AI cannot currently be used alone but could be used with careful oversight by humans to assist in writing scientific review articles."

Kacena, M.A., Plotkin, L.I. & Fehrenbacher, J.C. The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Writing Scientific Review Articles. Curr Osteoporos Rep (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s11914-023-008 @science @ai @writing

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"Our findings suggest that a low education is a risk factor for adult mortality, after controlling for age, sex, and marital status. We find that, on average, an adult with 12 years of schooling has a 24·5% (95% UI 23·0–26·1) lower risk of mortality compared with an adult with no schooling, with an average reduction in mortality risk of 1·9% (1·8–2·0) per year of schooling. The protective effect of higher education on mortality was significant across age, sex, period, birth cohort, and Socio-demographic Index level and did not attenuate at higher levels of education."

Balaj, M. et al. (2024) 'Effects of education on adult mortality: a global systematic review and meta-analysis,' The Lancet Public Health [Preprint]. doi.org/10.1016/s2468-2667(23). @education @health

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"Researchers used artificial intelligence to decipher the text of 2,000-year-old charred papyrus scripts, unveiling musings on music and capers." nature.com/articles/d41586-024 @ai @archaeodons

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"It is a puzzle why humans tend toward unrealistic optimism, as it can lead to excessively risky behavior and a failure to take precautionary action. Using data from a large nationally representative U.K. sample (N=36, 312) our claim is that optimism bias is partly a consequence of low cognition—as measured by a broad range of cognitive skills, including memory, verbal fluency, fluid reasoning and numerical reasoning."

Dawson, C. (2023). Looking on the (B)right Side of Life: Cognitive Ability and Miscalibrated Financial Expectations. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/01461672231209 @psychology

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"Climate change is arguably one of the greatest challenges today. Although the scientific consensus is that human activities caused climate change, a substantial part of the population downplays or denies human responsibility. In this registered report, we present causal evidence on a potential explanation for this discrepancy: motivated reasoning."

Stoetzer, L.S., Zimmermann, F. A representative survey experiment of motivated climate change denial. Nat. Clim. Chang. (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-019 @climate

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"The re­search­ers con­clude that cli­mate-re­lated stress could trig­ger a pan­demic out­break or in­tensify dis­ease out­breaks - for ex­ample, be­cause food is scarce and people be­come more sus­cept­ible for dis­eases." marum.de/en/Discover/climate-a @science @climate

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🇳🇴 🇸🇪 "The findings show that Sámi ethnic background increases the probability of experiencing discrimination. While individual-level economic inequality is also pertinent, this does not directly materialise as between-group inequality. Instead, minority language use is a strong predictor of discrimination experience, revealing the socio-cultural nature of ethnic inequalities."

Rusen Yasar, Fabian Bergmann, Anika Lloyd-Smith, Sven-Patrick Schmid, Katharina Holzinger & Tanja Kupisch (2023) Experience of discrimination in egalitarian societies: the Sámi and majority populations in Sweden and Norway, Ethnic and Racial Studies, DOI: doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2023. @politicalscience

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🇳🇴 🇸🇪 "To conclude, our study has produced new insights about some of the inequalities Indigenous people face in egalitarian societies. The prevalence of experiences of discrimination among the Sámi is strongly connected to their language use and thus rooted in the cultural status dimension." doi.org/10.53779/SBPL3716 @politicalscience

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"This argument has three independent layers or sub-arguments. The first is that slavery violates natural rights. The second is that moral laws such as the principles of equity and piety oppose slavery, or at least severely limit the permissible actions toward slaves. The third and final layer is that slavery can at most be justified if the slave is permanently incapable of conducting herself well."

Jorati, J., (2019) “Leibniz on Slavery and the Ownership of Human Beings”, Journal of Modern Philosophy 1: 10. doi: doi.org/10.25894/jmp.2132 @histodon @histodons @philosophy

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"We show that early H. sapiens associated with the LRJ were present in central and northwestern Europe long before the extinction of late Neanderthals in southwestern Europe. Our results strengthen the notion of a patchwork of distinct human populations and technocomplexes present in Europe during this transitional period."

Mylopotamitaki, D., Weiss, M., Fewlass, H. et al. Homo sapiens reached the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago. Nature (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-069 @science @biology @anthropology @archaeodons

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"This article studies how northern European migrants adapted their collective strategies to Seville’s institutional framework in the last third of the sixteenth century and how these strategies shaped the emergence of the so-called Flemish and German nation."

Jiménez Montes, G. (2022) “The Flemish and German Nation of Seville: Collective Strategies and Institutional Development of the Northern European Merchant Community in Seville, Spain (1568-1598)”, TSEG - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, 19(1), pp. 37–60. doi: doi.org/10.52024/tseg.11456 @histodon @histodons @historyofeconomics @earlymodern

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"These findings suggest that wealth inequality in the US is associated with significant inequities in survival. Wealth redistribution policies may substantially reduce those inequities and increase population longevity."

Himmelstein KEW, Tsai AC, Venkataramani AS. Wealth Redistribution to Extend Longevity in the US. JAMA Intern Med. Published online January 29, 2024. doi: doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed. @science

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"We document phases of instability and cooling from ~100 CE onward but more notably after ~130 CE. Pronounced cold phases between ~160 to 180 CE, ~245 to 275 CE, and after ~530 CE associate with pandemic disease, suggesting that climate stress interacted with social and biological variables."

Karin A. F. Zonneveld et al., Climate change, society, and pandemic disease in Roman Italy between 200 BCE and 600 CE. Sci. Adv.10, eadk1033 (2024). DOI: doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adk1033 @science @biology

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