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Thinkers On Caste System
Top 30 Scholars on Indian Caste System: Contributions, Works, and Themes S.No Name Discipline Key Work(s)(Bold + Year) Themes / Contributions 1 G.S. Ghurye Sociologist
New insights into the origin of the Indo-European languages
An international team of linguists and geneticists led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig has achieved a significant breakthrough
Giant Hand Axes Discovered in England Point to Prehistoric Humans’ ‘Strength and Skill’
Researchers in Kent, England, have unearthed 800 prehistoric artifacts, including two “giant hand axes” believed to be more than 300,000 years old. As Pandora Dewan
How Power Pervades Portrayals of Human Evolution
An evolutionary scholar examines racist and sexist depictions of human evolution that continue to permeate science, education, and popular culture. SYSTEMIC RACISM AND SEXISM have permeated
Three Parent Baby
A baby boy, the first child to be born using a new technique that incorporates DNA from three people, is now five months old. It is
Neither chimpanzee nor human – Ardipithecus reveals the surprising ancestry of both
Australopithecus fossils were regularly interpreted during the late 20th century in a framework that used living African apes, especially chimpanzees, as proxies for the immediate ancestors
Paleogenetics
Paleogenetics is the study of the past through the examination of preserved genetic material from the remains of ancient organisms.[1][2] Emile Zuckerkandl and Linus Pauling introduced the term in 1963, long before
Archaeogenetics
Archaeogenetics is the study of ancient DNA using various molecular genetic methods and DNA resources. This form of genetic analysis can be applied to human, animal, and plant specimens. Ancient
Paleogenomics
Paleogenomics is a field of science based on the reconstruction and analysis of genomic information in extinct species. Improved methods for the extraction of ancient