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
In search of virtual fruit, chimpanzees used landscape features for better orientation
Restoring the 'Sutherland Nine' to their community
Scientists are rebuilding microbial natural products up to 100,000 years old using dental calculus of humans and Neanderthals
The Xiongnu dominated the Eurasian steppes two millennia ago and foreshadowed the rise of the Mongol Empire
Scientists have sequenced the composer’s genome using five genetically matching hair locks
A human genome from the Ice Age refuge in southern Spain
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
New archaeogenetic data allow exciting insights into the social order of the Aegean Bronze Age
Research team analyzed genome-wide data for 33 Jewish individuals from 14th century Erfurt, Germany
Archaeogenetic study reveals large-scale continental migration into the East of England during the early Medieval Period
Multidisciplinary team studied ancient plague genomes
To shed light on the archipelago’s settlement history, researchers sequenced and analyzed sixteen ancient genomes
New research reveals how the black rat colonised Europe in the Roman and Medieval periods
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
Multidisciplinary research team sheds light on the 1,400-year-old mystery about the genetic origins of the Avar elite
New details about tuberculosis’ evolutionary history in ancient South America point to a complex web of disease transmission in the pre-colonial period
Ancient genomes from the Himalayas illuminate the genetic history of Tibetans and their Tibeto-Burman speaking neighbors