Finally, the West Bengal population had admixture from an East Asian group between 500 and 600 AD. This is the same date as for the Bangladeshis, meaning they are both the same population with the same origin. The major difference seems likely to be the proportion of East Asian ancestry an...
Another revealing and independent evidence of pīlu’s connection with the meaning of tooth comes from the widespread Indic phytonym of Salvadora persica, known in the western world as ‘toothbrush tree’, and in Arabic countries as ‘miswak’ tree; ‘miswak’ meaning ‘tooth-cleaning-stick’ (...
Johnson (1973) suggested that it originated in the restinga, meaning the low vegetation found in the sandy soil along the coast of eastern and northeastern Brazil. Anacardiaceae is a moderately large family consisting of Ca 74 genera and 600 species. It is subdivided into five tribes, namely ...
Views of identity formation are roughly divided into two competing camps, based on the concepts of "biological determination" (also known as biologism) and "social constructionism," and the debate over the key meaning of human behavior and self-identity can be seen as paralleling the split ...