Kategorie: Society
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Sharing is caring Central Europe’s first farming society lived on an equal footing
Genetic study also shows long-distance migrations in Neolithic societies Vienna/Austria, December, 2nd, 2024 – An international research team led by Pere Gelabert and Ron Pinhasi from the University of Vienna and David Reich from Harvard University has presented the most complete set of genetic data to date from the Early Neolithic in Central Europe. The…
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More loneliness, less well-being – how women and men experience the end of a relationship
HU study shows: Separations are more stressful for married people than for unmarried people, men are less prone to separations than women Berlin, November, 12, 2024. Most people today experience one or more break-ups in the course of their lives. The end of a romantic relationship, whether it was marital or not, can have an…
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The family as a wealth factor
A new study by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, the University of Cologne, GESIS and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health has analysed how the financial wealth of individuals changes depending on different family generation changes. It was found that people who become parents and grandparents late and also lose their parents late…
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So much has been socially broken The invocation of community in transformation
A central characteristic of crises is a lack of stable foundations. In times of upheaval, this has the effect of reorientation. Re-orientations are forced by the diverse circumstances. In an impulse paper, SOFI researcher Knut Tullius has developed three theses on the problem of the transformation of a sense of community in companies. The theses…
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We are facing a „knowledge-action gap“
Empowering young people to bridge the gap between knowledge and action is the programme of the UN initiative ‘Education for Sustainable Development’, which should become an important aspect of spirituality in schools. Representatives will be discussing this from September 30th to October 2nd, 2024 at the Nuremberg Forum 2024. Erlangen-Nuremberg, September 26th, 2024 Rapid media…
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New population model defines four phases of human colonisation of Europe
Researchers from the Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology at the University of Cologne have developed an ‘Our Way Model’ to understand how the first anatomically modern humans colonised Europe. The results were published in Nature Communications under the title ‘Reconstruction of human dispersal during Aurignacian on pan-European scale’. Cologne, September 04th, 2024: Scientists at the…