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Suzie Nestico

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day… - The Best Sites For Learning About The... - 0 views

  • Culture Crossing is a unique resource for information about different countries. It provides some basic demographics, but it also shares details about communication style, dress, gestures, etc.
  • What The World Eats is a TIME Magazine slideshow with family photos from around the world and the food they
  • Houses around the World, Wonderful Houses Around the World, and Homes Around The World all have images of….homes in different parts of the world.
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  • They can at School Lunches Around The World, School Meals From Around the World, and What’s For School Lunch?
  • the Glossary of Folk Musical Instruments & Styles from Around the World
  • ViewChange.Org has some pretty amazing short videos from around the world. This is how it describes itself: Using the power of video to tell stories about real people and progress in global development.
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    Great ideas for different aspects of world cultures... infographic about what colors represent in different cultures.
John Marr

Mitochondrial DNA and Y Chromosome Variation Provides Evidence for a Recent Common Ance... - 0 views

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    The Altai region of southern Siberia has played a critical role in the peopling of northern Asia as an entry point into Siberia and a possible homeland for ancestral Native Americans. It has an old and rich history because humans have inhabited this area since the Paleolithic. Today, the Altai region is home to numerous Turkic-speaking ethnic groups, which have been divided into northern and southern clusters based on linguistic, cultural, and anthropological traits. To untangle Altaian genetic histories, we analyzed mtDNA and Y chromosome variation in northern and southern Altaian populations. All mtDNAs were assayed by PCR-RFLP analysis and control region sequencing, and the nonrecombining portion of the Y chromosome was scored for more than 100 biallelic markers and 17 Y-STRs. Based on these data, we noted differences in the origin and population history of Altaian ethnic groups, with northern Altaians appearing more like Yeniseian, Ugric, and Samoyedic speakers to the north, and southern Altaians having greater affinities to other Turkic speaking populations of southern Siberia and Central Asia. Moreover, high-resolution analysis of Y chromosome haplogroup Q has allowed us to reshape the phylogeny of this branch, making connections between populations of the New World and Old World more apparent and demonstrating that southern Altaians and Native Americans share a recent common ancestor. These results greatly enhance our understanding of the peopling of Siberia and the Americas.
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