Engaging scientists from indigenous communities in genomic data
This is an important news article by Lizzie Wade in Science, covering the Summer Internship for Indigenous Peoples in Genomics: “To overcome decades of mistr...
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Watch who you call "extinct"!
Sometimes people wonder why human genetics projects should bother to involve anthropologists.
Repatriation in Torres Strait
The Guardian:
Last of a tribe
I want to pass along a story from Slate’s Monte Reel, about a modern-day Ishi in remote Brazil: “The most isolated man on the planet.”
Helicopter photographs hostile Amazonian natives
Am I the only one who noticed that the pictures of an “uncontacted” tribe in the Amazon were released the same week as the Indiana Jones movie, in which an u...