New The Maps Of The Week

Geneticists at Oxford University accept been studying 95 populations some the the world to seek out the effects of historical events on genetic makeup. The results of this written report are right away beingness visualized on a fascinating Google Map, called A Genetic Atlas of Human Admixture History.

The map allows you lot to conduct populations as well as thought inferred admixing inwards the population's deoxyribonucleic acid as well as the appointment that the admixing took place. For example, the Silk Road appears to accept brought Europeans to 1200 CE China. The deoxyribonucleic acid of the Tu people inwards modern Red People's Republic of China suggests that at some this fourth dimension the Tu were inwards contact amongst Europeans similar to modern Greeks.

If you lot conduct a labelled population on the Google Map you lot tin thought details of past times admixture events which accept been inferred, from the population's DNA. Colored circles or pie charts on the map describe the inferred genetic make-up of admixing sources inwards the population as well as a timeline indicates the menses when the admixing is probable to accept happened.

The map is a fascinating insight into the effects of historical events on distinct populations. Using the map it becomes clear how historical events similar the Arab Slave Trade or the Mongol invasions led to changes inwards the genetic makeup of other populations.


It is a petty belatedly right away simply I dearest this illustrated map created for the Sochi Winter Olympics. The Sochi 2014 Interactive Map was created using the MapBox platform past times Fiasco Design.

The map includes some cracking animated landmarks (check out the ski lift). It also includes information well-nigh the venues of the Winter Olympics games. If you lot mouse-over features on the map you lot tin read well-nigh Sochi as well as the dissimilar venues beingness used inwards the games. You mightiness also uncovering information well-nigh Sochi's 2 gay bars as well as some hidden underwater machine-guns.


Since the twelvemonth 2000 the the world has lost to a greater extent than than 500 1000000 acres of forest. Global Forest Watch is a novel Google Map from the World Resources Institute as well as over twoscore other global partners designed to map the world's wood coverage as well as loss.

Global Forest Watch is attempting to constitute a global wood monitoring network. The launch of this novel map is purpose of an first to render the tools for anyone to explore wood loss as well as wood gain across the globe. The map includes a release of layers, including wood embrace as well as loss since 2000, worldwide tree summit data, tropical wood carbon stocks as well as information well-nigh global wood use.

The map also includes links to forest-related stories. The links to the stories are embedded on the map at specific locations as well as the stories include photos, video, as well as explanatory text.

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