human migration
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Indonesia Issues First ‘Golden Visa’ to OpenAI’s Sam Altman
Indonesia issued its first “Golden Visa” to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in a bid to bring in foreign investors who have impacted the country’s economic development. The visa was launched only last week and will allow recipients to live in the country for five to ten years and they’ll be fast-tracked by immigration services. Altman…
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Undocumented Workers Need Climate Protections, Too
Ana Martínez has worked on a farm in Florida for nearly two decades. Her job is to cut pieces of bushes to use as fillings for flower bouquets. One Monday this past July, she knew something was wrong because she got a headache on the job.
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Ancient DNA From Siberia Provides Oldest Genetic Link To Native Americans
A 14,000-year-old genome scraped from a prehistoric tooth found in southern Siberia is now the oldest known connection linking living Native Americans to North America’s first migrants.
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Humans May Have Reached North America By More Than One Route
There’s an ongoing debate among archaeologists as to which route the first settlers of North America took to reach the continent. Some say these migrants travelled along an interior passage between two massive ice sheets, while others say they traversed along a coastal route. New research suggests both interpretations are correct and that multiple pathways…