Under favorable conditions DNA can survive for thousands of years in the remains of dead
organisms. The DNA extracted from such remains is invariably degraded to a small average …

Cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) is an important economic crop, yet studies of its domestication
history and early uses are limited. Traditionally, cacao is thought to have been first …

Museum specimens play a crucial role in addressing key questions in systematics,
evolution, ecology, and conservation. With the advent of high‐throughput sequencing …

We present an Aboriginal Australian genomic sequence obtained from a 100-year-old lock
of hair donated by an Aboriginal man from southern Western Australia in the early 20th …

It is commonly believed that trees were absent in Scandinavia during the last glaciation and
first recolonized the Scandinavian Peninsula with the retreat of its ice sheet some 9000 …

The processes that control the formation, intensity and track of hurricanes are poorly
understood. It has been proposed that an increase in sea surface temperatures caused by …

It is difficult to obtain fossil data from the 10% of Earth's terrestrial surface that is covered by
thick glaciers and ice sheets, and hence, knowledge of the paleoenvironments of these …

Lactase persistence (LP), the dominant Mendelian trait conferring the ability to digest the
milk sugar lactose in adults, has risen to high frequency in central and northern Europeans …

The recovery of genetic material from preserved hard skeletal remains is an essential part of
ancient DNA, archaeological and forensic research. However, there is little understanding …

Unlocking the vast genomic diversity stored in natural history collections would create
unprecedented opportunities for genome-scale evolutionary, phylogenetic, domestication …