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Curious Children, Less Curious Apes

Children choose a “mystery box” more often than apes, but after a glimpse of a larger reward from the uncertain option, great apes show more curiosity

Chimpanzees Can Navigate Virtual Environments

In search of virtual fruit, chimpanzees used landscape features for better orientation

Reviving Stone Age Molecules

Scientists are rebuilding microbial natural products up to 100,000 years old using dental calculus of humans and Neanderthals

Ancient DNA Reveals the Multiethnic Structure of Mongolia’s First Nomadic Empire

The Xiongnu dominated the Eurasian steppes two millennia ago and foreshadowed the rise of the Mongol Empire

Beethoven’s Genome

Scientists have sequenced the composer’s genome using five genetically matching hair locks

Ice Age Survivors

Large-scale genomic analysis documents the migrations of Ice Age hunter-gatherers over a period of 30,000 years – they took shelter in Western Europe but died out on the Italian peninsula

Marriage in Minoan Crete

New archaeogenetic data allow exciting insights into the social order of the Aegean Bronze Age

Ancient DNA from Medieval Germany Tells the Origin Story of Ashkenazi Jews

Research team analyzed genome-wide data for 33 Jewish individuals from 14th century Erfurt, Germany

From Continental Europe to England

Archaeogenetic study reveals large-scale continental migration into the East of England during the early Medieval Period

Pre-Historic Wallacea - a Melting Pot of Human Genetic Ancestries

To shed light on the archipelago’s settlement history, researchers sequenced and analyzed sixteen ancient genomes

Spread of Black Rats Was Linked to Human Historical Events

New research reveals how the black rat colonised Europe in the Roman and Medieval periods

The Rise of Mobile Dairy Pastoralism on the Eurasian Steppe

New study of ancient milk proteins reveals the changing pastoralist strategies that laid the groundwork for the great steppe migrations of the Eurasian Bronze Age

Origins of the Avars Elucidated with Ancient DNA

Multidisciplinary research team sheds light on the 1,400-year-old mystery about the genetic origins of the Avar elite

Exploring Ancient Tuberculosis Transmission Chains

New details about tuberculosis’ evolutionary history in ancient South America point to a complex web of disease transmission in the pre-colonial period

New Insights into the Genetic History of Tibetans and Their Neighbors

Ancient genomes from the Himalayas illuminate the genetic history of Tibetans and their Tibeto-Burman speaking neighbors