Tag: ancestors
Elisa commemorates enslaved ancestors during Keti Koti: ‘With my poems I bring their stories close’
A passage from Elisa’s poem for the Utrecht slavery monument Flight and Resistance: We’re standing still so that our ancestors rest on our shoulders and we wear them their strength…
“I’m ashamed of my ancestors who participated in slavery” – Laura Trevelyan paid reparations to the descendants of slaves and wants others to join
– As a descendant of a plantation owner who kept slaves, how does it feel to sit on one of their plantations with a descendant of a slave? This is…
Alzheimer’s disease: could its origin come from the consumption of fructose by our ancestors?
News Published on 02/27/2023 at 3:42 p.m. Updated 02/27/2023 at 3:42 p.m. Reading 2 mins. According to a new American study, Alzheimer’s disease could find its origin in an evolutionary…
A white woman searches for the family history of her black ancestors
The question that Anne-Fay asks herself, whether she can stand for the rights of a black woman with white skin, is also discussed in the performance. “I don’t know if…
PODCAST. The genes of our ancestors at the service of today’s medicine
In this new episode of La Loupe, Xavier Yvon examines the link between DNA and our immune system with Bruno Cot, editor-in-chief of the Sciences department of L’Express, and Lluis…
Our ancestors could already walk 7 million years ago!
The recent analysis of bones belonging to members of the same species as Toumaï, Sahelanthropus chadensis, puts an end to an old debate: this hominid who lived 7 million years…
Our ancestors could already walk on both legs 7 million years ago
The recent analysis of bones belonging to members of the same species as Toumaï, Sahelanthropus chadensis, puts an end to an old debate: this hominid who lived 7 million years…
Fossils of our oldest ancestors ‘one million years older’ than thought
Fossils of a cavewoman named Miss Ples were buried in caves in South Africa, known as the Cradle of Humanity. Contemporary testing methods show that the first humans began roaming…
Prehistoric people collected the tools of their ancestors
How were memories transmitted in prehistoric times? A study reveals that Near Eastern men recycled ancient cut stones and incorporated them into the tool set they created, probably to preserve…
Prehistoric men collected the tools of their ancestors
How were memories transmitted in prehistoric times? A study reveals that men in the Near East recycled ancient cut stones and incorporated them into the set of tools they created,…