Example Sentences

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Should non-African artists be considered in a category meant to showcase African talent?

From BBC • Feb. 1, 2025

Because Indigenous Australians today carry the same Neanderthal DNA as other non-African populations, it suggests they arrived no earlier than 47,000 years ago.

From Science Magazine • May 22, 2024

Since Chris Solinsky became the first American — and first non-African — to break 27 minutes at 10,000 meters in 2010, five U.S. men have done so.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2024

Neanderthal versions of several immune-related genes have risen to high frequency in several non-African populations, which likely helped humans fend off exposure to new pathogens.

From Salon • Oct. 21, 2022

Ethnic groups: Cameroon Highlanders 31%, Equatorial Bantu 19%, Kirdi 11%, Fulani 10%, Northwestern Bantu 8%, Eastern Nigritic 7%, other African 13%, non-African less than 1%

From The 2002 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency