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A skull discovered in South Africa provides key evidence about human evolution, and early plans for a tunnel to connect England and France, in this week’s pick from the Nature archive.
Ancient genomes from modern Ukraine and Russia reveal the origins of the Yamna people, pastoralists who migrated from the Eurasian steppe to Europe 5,000 years ago, spreading their ancestry, culture and, probably, language.
Ancient genome-wide data of 722 individuals and interdisciplinary analysis of large seventh- to eighth-century ce neighbouring cemeteries near Vienna are used to address the impact of the encounter between Eastern Asian Avars and Europeans.
A skull discovered in South Africa provides key evidence about human evolution, and early plans for a tunnel to connect England and France, in this week’s pick from the Nature archive.
The boundaries between science and pseudoscience are not always clear cut, as topics move in and out of the culturally accepted core of science. Rather, science needs to be judged on the merits of its methodology.
Ancient genomes from modern Ukraine and Russia reveal the origins of the Yamna people, pastoralists who migrated from the Eurasian steppe to Europe 5,000 years ago, spreading their ancestry, culture and, probably, language.
Quantum mechanics depicts a counter-intuitive reality in which the act of observation influences what is observed — and few can agree on what that means.
