Ancient DNA is revealing the genetic landscape of people who first settled East Asia
By studying the DNA of people who lived in East Asia thousands of years ago, scientists are starting to untangle how the region was populated.
Melinda A. Yang, Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Richmond
• conversation
Sept. 15, 2020 • ~11 min
Sept. 15, 2020 • ~11 min
Tags: ancient-dna hunter-gatherers china agriculture archaeology genes genomics southeast-asia rice adna siberia paleoanthropology human-migration east-asia hunter-gatherer start-of-agriculture paleogenomics
Coronavirus threat reveals the flaws in India's health system
The COVID-19 pandemic must be managed in India in a tense economic context and with a largely privatised health system.
Yves-Marie Rault Chodankar, Chercheur associé au Centre d'études en sciences sociales sur les mondes africains, américains et asiatiques, Université de Paris
• conversation
March 20, 2020 • ~7 min
March 20, 2020 • ~7 min
Tags: infectious-diseases public-health poverty covid-19 coronavirus pandemic india narendra-modi southeast-asia populism the-conversation-france epidemics
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