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PubMed2026

Genomics and social practices at Mogou and other Gansu sites during prehistoric trans-Eurasian exchange.

Beginning approximately 4,000 years ago, southwest-Asian-originating domesticated crops and livestock began appearing in Gansu, a key crossroads in northwestern China, yet the population dynamics and social practices underlying these historically transformative events in the region have not been fully explored. Despite the adoption of western domesticates, genome sequences of 149 individuals from the large Mogou cemetery and ten other sites in Gansu, dating between 4,700 and 3,000 years ago, revealed migrations within East Asian regions but no detectable evidence of genetic influence from western or central Eurasia, suggesting that early agricultural dispersals may have followed a model distinct from that documented in Europe and Central Asia. The Mogou cemetery represents a continuous community that interacted with surrounding regions but does not exhibit clear matrilocal or patrilocal residential patterns. We found no strong evidence that co-buried individuals represented biological relatives. Non-local ancestry appears to be linked to lower-status burial practices.

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PubMed2026

Ancient Mongolian aurochs and cattle genomes reveal population shifts associated with the expansion of herding.

Humans hunted aurochs (Bos primigenius) for millennia in Mongolia prior to the introduction of domestic cattle sometime after ca. 5,000 years ago. Here, we present genomic data from Mongolian aurochs and domestic cattle at key points in Mongolia's prehistory to understand changes in population history associated with the adoption of domestic taurine cattle (B. taurus). We compare these low-coverage genomes with other cattle genomes worldwide and make comparisons about the nature of bovine populations before and after the adoption of domestic cattle. Individuals dating to before the introduction of taurine cattle have shared ancestry with North Asian aurochs, and individuals dating after the introduction of taurine cattle are related to other ancient East Asian cattle from archaeological sites such as Shimao in the Ordos region. We identify unique connections between ancient Mongolian aurochs and cattle and modern cattle breeds from Central China and Tibet.

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PubMed1977

Language acquisition: the new synthesis.

Developments concerning the nature of language have taken place in the disparate disciplines of linguistics, ethology and neurology. It is not widely known that these developments have brought these fields of study into accord, and have helped clarify the mechanism of language acquisition in childhood. They carry practical implications important to the teaching of language and to the understanding of language disabilities. The conclusions have also led to the discovery of cranial vault asymmetries which promise insight into the evolution of language in man's prehistory. The learning of language has become better understood as a result of recent developments in the fields of linguistics, ethology and comparative neurology.

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[Compression method throughout the ages].

The compressive method was practiced instinctively in farthest antiquity. Its development in Western Europe over the past two centuries may be artificially divided into 3 phases. The first phase, which belongs to the prehistory of Phlebology, includes two notable facts: the start of ambulatory compression in London around 1800, and the interest that the French school immediately showed in this discovery. However, this measure was soon abandoned, since around 1880, in the Paris hospitals, ulcers of the leg were being treated by mercury plasters and rest in bed. The second phase--1900 to about 1950--is marked by the empirical development of the compressive method, mainly in chronic phlebopathies. The synergic effect of walking is definitively established; the treatment of deep-set phlebites by ambulatory compression is discovered by H. Fischer in Germany and then in France by L. Nard. Beginning in 1950, this empirical data is both spread by the new Phleboloby Societies, and submitted to rigorous scientific study. Clinicians (especially H. R. Van der Mollen), assisted by physicists, physiologists and biologists, establish the laws of "therapeutic counter-pressure" and transpose them in the textile industry. New materials facilitate the use of elastic pressure. Underestimated or little known by most physicians, ambulatory elastocompression remains for Phlobologists a fundamental therapy. At a time when sedentary living and excess use of drugs are being widely denounced, it still has a promising future.

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