Rick Schulting

Nov 5, 2024 | geneticliteracyproject.org | Rick Schulting

A girl goes nose-to-nose with a Neanderthal statue in Germany. Ancient DNA research is increasingly revealing the genetic links between modern humans and our extinct ancestors, including Neanderthals and the mysterious Denisovans.

Mar 18, 2024 | sapiens.org | Jenny Davis |Michael Perez |Rick Schulting |Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia

Get weekly insights about our world through anthropology. A poet-anthropologist of the Chickasaw Nation honors infant remains historically used in teaching collections at the University of Illinois. “Infant, Name Once Known” is part of the collection Poems of Witness and Possibility: Inside Zones of Conflict. Read the introduction to the collection here.

Mar 13, 2024 | sapiens.org | Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori |Keridwen Cornelius |Michael Perez |Rick Schulting

✽As we ate breakfast in her room at La Merced shelter, Anita (a pseudonym) described her plight and that of her fellow residents: “You know, Magdalena? We have come to die here. There is no possibility for a better life within these walls. It’s all death. We are trash, and nobody wants us.”Anita’s words hit me emotionally.

Mar 7, 2024 | sapiens.org | Michael Perez |Emily Sekine |Rick Schulting |Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia

Walid has diabetes and lives in Jordan. Throughout his youth, the disease was manageable. He worked and took care of his 13 children without any problems. One day, however, his leg felt strange. He could sense something was wrong and worried he might get gangrene. Walid couldn’t afford health insurance, so he asked several of his sons to take him to a public hospital that offered subsidized care for the poor. When he got to the hospital, the doctors refused treatment.

Mar 5, 2024 | sapiens.org | Rick Schulting |Marlaina Martin |Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia |Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽THE IDEA THAT TWO different human species, Homo sapiens (us) and Neanderthals, coexisted in Western Eurasia 50,000–40,000 years ago has long captured the imagination of academics and the public alike.