#Geneticists have written new chapters in the #reconstruction of #PreColonial -Americas #history after using #DNA from the #Indigenous #Ashaninka people from #Amazonian #Peru . They've #discovered previously #unexpected levels of #genetic variation in this group & #uncovered a strong hint that these people were involved in South-to-North #migration that led to #transition from #archaic to ceramic #culture in the #Caribbean islands.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/03/230316113957.htm

#science #Amazon #Indigenous #Native

Too little, too late? Well it comes late but it is never TOO late. & it is pretty little. So do more to make sure it is not too late!
Geneticist Sarah Tishkoff: “I didn’t realize the extent 2 which" well-respected geneticists "believed in eugenic ideology,” Really?!! 🤨 🤨 #Geneticists support of #eugenics isn't new news. How about as a 1st step post apology: every PhD candidate required 2 take a course in the #HistoryofAmericanBiology?
#HistoryofScience
https://www.science.org/content/article/human-geneticists-apologize-past-involvement-eugenics-scientific-racism#:~:text=The%20American%20Society%20of%20Human,in%20the%20field%20of%20genetics.

World’s largest body of human #geneticists apologizes for #eugenics role https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/01/24/geneticists-eugenics-apology/

Loved how #geneticists who care about #conservation has been on the side of "people and nature" approach of conservation since really early. Otto Frankel did some socially-aware work for his time.

Frankel, O.H. 1974 "Genetic conservation: our evolutionary responsibility" Genetics 78(1):53-65.

All right, #genealogists and #geneticists, a question. I’m doing #genealogy and am wondering, what are the odds that a second cousin once removed shares only 39 cM with a person? (The cousin’s kids also seem to share between 21 and 36, which isn’t weird as chunks of #DNA can be inherited…but.) 39 seems low and Ancestry pegs the cousin as 4th-6th cousin. I’m wondering how likely it is that they are a HALF-2nd cousin 1x removed. ISOGG gives avg 122 cM (14-352 range) for 2C1R, 66 (0-190) for half

As their research is twisted to fuel racist claims, many geneticists are weighing the societal risks of their work.
#geneticists #whitesupremacy #racialmythmaking
https://race.undark.org/articles/a-field-at-a-crossroads-genetics-and-racial-mythmaking?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=2e84db4a72-briefing-dy-20221215&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-2e84db4a72-45793974

As their research is twisted to fuel racist claims, many geneticists are weighing the societal risks of their work.
#geneticists #whitesupremacy #racialmythmaking
https://race.undark.org/articles/a-field-at-a-crossroads-genetics-and-racial-mythmaking?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=2e84db4a72-briefing-dy-20221215&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-2e84db4a72-45793974

Quick reintroduction. I am the social media handle for the #Evolutionary #Studies Initiative at #Vanderbilt #University. We are a cross-disciplinary group including but certainly not limited to #anthropologists, #biologists, #chemists, #ecologists, #geneticists, #paleontologists, and #psychologists. A couple recent non-biology examples: an English professor that studied the use of the term genetics in TV and movies through 100 years, a law professor applying evolutionary theory to law