We Are Living Through a Paradigm Shift in Our Understanding of Human Evolution
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We Are Living Through a Paradigm Shift in Our Understanding of Human Evolution

There’s a paradigm shift underway in our understanding of the past four million years of human evolution: ours is a story that includes combinations with other Homo species, spread unevenly across today’s populations—not a neat and linear evolutionary progression.

Our Homo Sapiens Ancestors Shared the World with Neanderthals, Denisovans and Other Types of Humans Whose DNA Lives on in Our Genes
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Our Homo Sapiens Ancestors Shared the World with Neanderthals, Denisovans and Other Types of Humans Whose DNA Lives on in Our Genes

When the first modern humans arose in East Africa sometime between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago, we – meaning people of our species, Homo sapiens – were only one of several types of humans (or hominins) that simultaneously existed on Earth.

Two Hundred Years of Mendel’s Genetic Revolution and the Fight Against Scientific Racism
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Two Hundred Years of Mendel’s Genetic Revolution and the Fight Against Scientific Racism

While Mendel’s work is central to modern genetics, it also set off the dark side with which genetics has been inextricably linked: eugenics and racism. Eugenics has been used to argue the superiority of the elite, dominant races, and in India, a “scientific” justification for the caste system as well.

Power Dynamics? Local Healthcare Dubbed Non-Scientific, ‘Needing’ Allopathic Nod
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Power Dynamics? Local Healthcare Dubbed Non-Scientific, ‘Needing’ Allopathic Nod

Civil society organizations and healers’ networks have been advocating to bring the indigenous and local healthcare traditions into the main fold of healthcare provisioning. However, allopathic medicine continues to create distrust in indigenous and local healthcare tradition systems.