Silvia Smith

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How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies — ProPublica More than ‎20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perfor...

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Exclusive: Medical journal rejects Kennedy's call for retraction of vaccine study An influential U.S. medical journal is rejecting a call from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to retract a large Danish study that found that aluminum ingredients in vaccines do not increase health risks for children, the journal's editor told Reuters.

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Exclusive: Medical journal rejects Kennedy's call for retraction of vaccine study An influential U.S. medical journal is rejecting a call from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to retract a large Danish study that found that aluminum ingredients in vaccines do not increase health risks for children, the journal's editor told Reuters.

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Inference of human pigmentation from ancient DNA by genotype likelihood Light eyes, hair and skins probably evolved several times as Homo sapiens dispersed from Africa. In areas with lower UV radiation, light pigmentation alleles increased in frequency because of their ad...

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I don’t envy you. I have to teach about vaccines, their efficacy and safety….

Neanderthals and humans interbred more recently than scientists thought Two teams using different methods both conclude that humans and Neanderthals had children together starting roughly 50,000 years ago.

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Neanderthals and humans interbread as recently as 7,000 years BP according to a newly published Nature article

Silvia E. Smith

Hi Eryn, I am a human biologist and biological anthropologist with an interest in the evolution of human disease.
I am an Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. I'd like to be added as a contributor.
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