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FEBRUARY 25, 2025

In 2012, archaeologist Melanie Giles, from the University of Manchester, published her unparalleled analysis of Middle Iron Age Yorkshire burials , showing that some cemeteries were organized around larger, female founder burials.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2025

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1221359110 1221359110 Huerta-Sánchez, E. Altitude adaptation in Tibetans caused by introgression of Denisovan-like DNA. DOI: 10.1038/nature13408 Meyer, M. A high-coverage genome sequence from an archaic Denisovan individual. DOI: 10.1126/science.1224344 1224344 1 Abood, S., & Oota, H.

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MAY 16, 2025

From Sprawl to Strategy When Executive Director, IT Services Eric Hileman joined Oklahoma City Public Schools in 2012, the IT department followed a lock and block mentality, limiting access to tech as a form of control. Cot, assistant director of educational technology for the Massachusetts education department.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The low-income school district near downtown Los Angeles, with a student body that is 84 percent Latino and 14 percent Black, now has a graduation rate of 93 percent, compared with 58 percent when Brawley took the job in 2012. She gets separate data chats with her math specialist that are part performance review, part pep talk.

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APRIL 14, 2025

The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century. Princeton University Press. Link to publisher Smith, M. E., & Peregrine, P. Comparative Archaeology: A Framework for Analysis. link] 1 Kohler, T. Bogaard, A., Ortman, S. Chirikure, S., McCoy, M.

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APRIL 24, 2025

The oldest of the cohort born from 1997 to 2012 are in their mid- to late 20s and taking heat for chafing against workplace culture in ways that come off as entitled (sound familiar, millennials?). In 2011 and 2012, when the oldest Zoomers were 15, that rate peaked with 46 percent of them living in low-income households.

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APRIL 10, 2025

These findings prompt a reevaluation of the technological and cognitive abilities of early human populations and underscore the complexity of their migratory and adaptive strategies.​ ​ Related Research Mannino, M. Origin and diet of the prehistoric hunter-gatherers on the Mediterranean Island of Favignana (Ègadi Islands, Sicily).

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JUNE 4, 2025

Since 2012, the authors write, Detroits community leaders, educators and politicians, have tried citywide messaging campaigns and community pledges; phone calls, home visits, and parent contracts; church buses and afterschool programming; data-driven tiered support systems; and court-run diversion programs.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 26, 2025

.” In the grooves of bark and the genetic twists of yeast, the story of humanity unfolds once again—not just in monuments of stone and bone, but in the living, breathing fabric of the forests themselves. Additional Related Research Here are some related studies you may want to explore: Wang, Q.-M., link] Peter, J.,

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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028239 0028239 Groucutt, H.S., Homo sapiens in Arabia by 85,000 years ago. Nature Ecology & Evolution , 2, 800–809. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-018-0518-2 Petraglia, M.D., Hominin dispersal into the Nefud Desert and Middle Paleolithic settlement along the Jebel Qattar and Jebel Katefeh. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.11.008

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

percentage points higher in 2022 than it was in 2012, AEI found. In fact, 87 percent of nonprofit four-year colleges in 2022 took half or more of the students who applied to them, up from 80 percent in 2012, the AEI study found. The median acceptance rate at bachelor’s degree-granting universities and colleges was 7.6

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APRIL 14, 2025

. “Greater post-Neolithic wealth disparities in Eurasia than in North America and Mesoamerica.” ” Nature , 551(7682), 619–622. link] Smith, M. E., & Peregrine, P. “Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference.” ” In The Comparative Archaeology of Complex Societies (pp. 1–28).

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The pace of morphological change: historical transformation of skull shape in St. Bernard dogs. 275(1630), 71-76. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1169 2007.1169 Rubin CJ et al. Strong signatures of selection in the domestic pig genome. 109(48), 19529–19536. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1217149109 1217149109 Marshall FB, Dobney K, Denham T, Capriles JM (2014).

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Later on, Ta opened an email from their school that mentioned the Kentucky Student Voice Team, a state-level group that was started in 2012 to bring students into the advocacy process. While the controversy pushed some people away, Ta found they enjoyed having critical conversations. It seemed like good resume padding, Ta says.

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JUNE 1, 2025

The History of Anthropological Survey of India Proceedings of a Seminar. Calcutta: Seagull Books. Man in India , 65(4), 35. Srivastava, V. Indian Anthropology Today. Journal of the Anthropological Survey of India , 61(2), 123140. Sundar, N., & & Deshpande, S. Anthropology in the East: Founders of Indian Sociology and Anthropology.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Source: PNAS, 2012. Rabett, 2012. Anatomically Modern Humans in Southeast Asia by 46 ka Presents evidence for early modern human presence in Southeast Asia, contributing to debates on regional hominin diversity. Source: Book by R.J. J., & Wu, X. Making sense of eastern Asian Late Quaternary hominin variability.

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JUNE 1, 2025

Another challenge is the limited funding and institutional support for anthropology in India, as noted by scholars like Vinay Kumar Srivastava (2012). While the IAS has worked to decolonize anthropology by focusing on indigenous perspectives, some scholars argue that remnants of colonial methodologies persist in certain studies. Sundar, N.,

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NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Source: Science , 2012. Origins and Genetic Legacy of Neolithic Farmers Discusses the genetic legacy of early Neolithic farmers and their relationships with Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in Europe. Source: BioRxiv , 2016.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 8, 2025

As Hattie (2012) found, collective teacher efficacy—when educators believe in their shared ability to positively affect students—has one of the highest effect sizes on student achievement. This shift requires professional learning environments where reflective dialogue, data-enhanced decision-making, and collective efficacy are prioritized.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 7, 2025

When I came to Amsterdam as a graduate student in 2012, I was surprised to find the citys parks teeming with vibrant green feathers, red beaks, and bluish tails. Amsterdam, like other European cities, hosts growing populations of non-native parakeets. An anthropologist unpacks what shifting attitudes toward these birds reveal about humans.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2025

A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature Through History. Harvard University Press. Shipman, P. The Man Who Found the Missing Link: The Extraordinary Life of Eugene Dubois. Harvard University Press. Dart and the "killer ape" hypothesis: Origins, impact, and legacy. Current Anthropology , 53(S6), S000-S000. DOI: 10.1086/662201.

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APRIL 22, 2025

The book won the 2012 Stonewall Book Award and the 2012 Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Nonfiction. The Antiracist Kid: A Book About Identity, Justice, and Activism by Tiffany Jewell. A Queer History of the United States, a book about LGBTQ+ people in U.S society, by Michael Bronski.

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JUNE 6, 2025

In a time when machines can learn but struggle to teach, this study is a timely reminder: what made us human was not just the ability to adapt, but the capacity to share how. Suggested Additional Readings Sterelny, K. The Evolved Apprentice: How Evolution Made Humans Unique. link] Stout, D., Khreisheh, N., Bradley, B., & Chaminade, T.

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JANUARY 18, 2025

. “This interdisciplinary effort demonstrates how modern climate research can be applied to ancient contexts, offering a model for addressing questions about both the past and present.” ” Related Research **Antón, S. C., & Snodgrass, J. “Origins and evolution of genus Homo.” ” Current Anthropology.

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APRIL 17, 2025

Genetic diversity of the great bustard in Iberia and Morocco: risks from current population fragmentation. Conservation Genetics , 10, 379–390. link] Humphrey, L.T., Iberomaurusian funerary behaviour: Evidence from Grotte des Pigeons, Taforalt, Morocco. Journal of Human Evolution , 62(2), 261–273. link] 1 Cooper, J. Collar, N.

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Sapiens

JULY 9, 2025

2012 Jenna is a spitting image of her mother, Um Jenna. I hear a rumor that cash assistance for the family from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees will soon dry up, and I wonder what they will do and where they have gone. I know I will find them somewhere nearby, still in Hashmi Shmali, next time I come.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Louisiana Key Academy is one of 176 specialized charter schools in 23 states that focus on students with disabilities, according to an October report by the Center for Learner Equity that relied on 2020-21 data, and the number of students with disabilities served by these schools has more than doubled since 2012.

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ED Surge

MARCH 25, 2025

In 2012, a 20-year-old shooter struck down 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. In 2022, an 18-year-old gunman massacred 21 people at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Four years before that, a 19-year-old fatally shot 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 16, 2025

"Coevolution of farming and private property during the early Holocene." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 110(22), 8830–8835. link] Flannery, K. V., & Marcus, J. The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire. Harvard University Press. Link Feinman, G.

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APRIL 16, 2025

In fact, the median acceptance rate at four-year universities was about 8 percentage points higher in 2022 than it was in 2012. But the fact is, on average, universities are admitting a larger proportion of their applicants than they did 20 years ago.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Nationwide, between 2012 and 2022 the number of undergraduate degrees awarded in the humanities English, history, languages, literature, philosophy and related subjects fell 24 percent , according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. But its become an existential one.

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MAY 14, 2025

2012 Education nation The Hechinger Report teams with NBC to highlight schools and communities that have come up with innovative solutions for enduring problems. Credit: Sarah Garland Credit: Amanda Brown/NJ Spotlight 2013 A promise to renew In 2012, Newark education officials set out to reform their citys lowest-performing schools.

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APRIL 28, 2025

art and art history education is in crisis : While 5,300 art history degrees were awarded in 2012, the number fell to just 3,500 in 2022 a 34 percent decline, The Nation reported. Art history students in particular face growing difficulty in securing employment outside academic circles. In the U.S.,

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MAY 18, 2025

This took place during my freelance days in 2012, and a project like this was a financial necessity as well as a chance for creativity. He's also been along the Leeds-Liverpool canal via Saltaire into Leeds, which I cycled along completing a Mission:Explore project in association with Arla.

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The Conversation - Politics + Society

MAY 23, 2025

My colleagues Rachel Mourão and George Sylvie and I found something similar in previous research looking at the protests that followed the killings of Trayvon Martin in Florida in 2012 and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014.

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JANUARY 6, 2025

The institute, which she directed from 2012-2022, has a strong emphasis on public humanities, so she welcomed the arrival of the journal as a forum to talk to other people about it across the world. Nuttall will peer review articles and help recruit other academics in the Global South to be editors, contributors and reviewers.

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MAY 28, 2025

The bluegrass group Della Mae plays at an orphanage in Kyrgyzstan on its State Department-sponsored American Music Abroad tour in 2012.

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