EG clicks in Khoisian languages exclusive to Southeastern Africa or the languages of West Africa which require speakers to simultaneously produce consonant sounds with their lips and soft palate as compared to Indo-European languages which, while they do have their own quirks and difficulties seem overall simpler. And the further you get from our original homeland the simpler the phonology of languages seem to get such as the Japanese and Austronesian families which don't feature consonant clusters like Indo-European languages. Is there anything there or is my read on it total BS?

Genetic sequencing of human remains dating back 45,000 years has revealed a previously unknown migration into Europe and showed intermixing with Neanderthals in that period was more common than previously thought.

Header Image from the Thailand IOM Migration website.

Using Tezos-based supply chain application eMin, which is developed by Diginex, the UN Agency ‘International Organization for Migration (IOM)’ collected information on recruitment and employment experiences of Myanmar migrant workers.

The International Organization For Migration (IOM) & eMin

The UN Migration Agency (IOM) is the leading inter-governmental organization in the field of migration and is one of the specialized agencies of the United Nations. As part of the CREST Fashion program, IOM is partnering with the fashion industry to eliminate slavery and trafficking.

(CREST  stands for Corporate Responsibility in Eliminating Slavery and Trafficking). One of the companies that take part in this program is Delta Galil, an Israeli textile firm headquartered in Tel Aviv, with factories around the world.

Using Tezos-based supply chain application eMin, which is developed by Diginex, they collected information on recruitment and employment experiences of Myanmar migrant workers.

The information gathered, enabled Delta Galil to pinpoint the stages of the labour migration journey where migrants are particularly vulnerable to exploitation. The first trail took place between 9 and 23 April 2021.

>***“Our results showed that technology can facilitate better communication between migrant workers and their managers while helping international companies to get a bird’s eye view of recruitment trends and risks in their supply chain at a regional and even global level,”***
– Ms. Leanne Melnyk, Head of Global Supply Chains at Diginex

Mr. Leslie Shull, Global Compliance Director at Delta Galil, explained that:

>***“the project helped identify areas where Delta Galil must take a deeper dive to improve conditions for migrant workers in its Thai facility. It has also informed the direction of a forthcoming review of its factory management system and the employer-worker communications channels.”***

United Nations and Tezos

eMin is the second Tezos-based application that is used in humanitarian aid solutions that are used in programs that are run by the United Nations.

Earlier this year we reported about the Tezos-based Digital Identity application which is developed by “Gravity” and is being used in the Education credentia

Hi, I am a layperson whom recently have been reading up a lot on early human prehistory, and recently, I was reading "A Pocket History of Human Evolution: How We Became Sapiens", a book by Francois Savatier and Gerd-Christian Weniger Silvana Condemi.

The book suggested that the discovery and dating of stone tools at Madjedbebe, Australia, suggested that humans first arrived in Australia at least 65,000 years ago. The book suggests that that the presence of stone tools at Madjedbebe means it is unlikely that the first wave of migration leaving Africa took place about 70,000 years ago as it means that early humans took just 5000 years to go from Africa to reach Australia. Instead the book suggests the first wave of migration took place around 135,000 years ago, as it will give at least more than 70,000 years for early humans to reach Africa.

I am less interested in the of when human migrations took place, but more at how the terms of "fast" and "slow" are define. I have seen this discussion in some articles about the first human migrations throughout the Americas.

I am curious, why is 5000 years sometimes seen as an improbably speed to travel between far-away places? I am assuming that these are nomadic hunter-gatherers and i think continental south asia was not under the Ice Age, it seems plenty of time for humans to migrate from Africa to Australasia.

This is an honest question, and I'm hoping to have a real (read: minimally political) discussion about race. As issues of "race" continue to rage on in the United States, I'm growing more and more skeptical that the core "race" categories are overly reductionist and dramatically oversimplify the course of human history (and pre-history).

Since I know this is often a relevant question, I'll begin by sharing my racial (or ethnic?) background.

What "Race" am I?

I supposed I'm what you would call a mixed-race individual. My great grandparents emigrated from Japan in the early 1900s to America. My grandfather's family was from northern Japan, and my grandmother's family was from central Japan (Osaka). On the other side, my grandfather was of Norwegian descent, and my grandmother was of German descent. Ethnically, I believe that makes me half Japanese, and a mixture of European ethnicities (German, Swiss, Norwegian, and Polish, specifically).

When I have to fill out government forms, I tend to check the "two or more races" box. I celebrate both my Japanese heritage, and some of the European traditions that live on in my family. I see myself as American, since I'm a fourth generation born in this country (i.e., my national origin is unambiguously American).

Given this, am I white? Or Asian? Should I feel attacked by the growing hatred towards white people? Next to a white person, I look Asian. Next to an Asian person, I look white. I don't fit squarely in to any category, and I don't strictly identify as either "white" or "Asian". With this background, I've never really understood how the concept of "Race" can be reduced to 5 or 6 options on a form, and why these broad categories continue to dominant the political discourse in the present day.

A deeper dive into my racial / ethnic background

It is believed that the Ainu people from northern Japan—specifically, the island of Hokkaido—are ethnically distinct from Japanese people from Honshu (the main island). The archeological record suggests that peoples in northern Siberia migrated to Hokkaido during the previous ice age roughly 20,000-30,000 years ago, which might explain why northern Japanese people look more "white" than Yamato people (the dominant ethnic group) who are believed to be of east Asian descent, based on genetic and haplogroup analyses. Interestingly, the Yamato people genetically belong to a ha

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