science
On genes, ancestry, and why we’re all descended from royalty
People love to declare their “part Viking” heritage, or direct descent from Roman legions. Unfortunately, most of these claims are little more than pseudoscience; they were even referred to by The Guardian as “genetic astrology”.
Cheddar Man: The face of the first Britons
Charlotte Hartley discusses the genome analysis of an ancient British skeleton and what it can teach us about human evolution.
