A large scholarship currently holds that before the onset of anthropogenic global warming,
natural climatic changes long provoked subsistence crises and, occasionally, civilizational …

SUMMARY The Gram-negative bacterium Yersinia pestis is responsible for deadly plague, a
zoonotic disease established in stable foci in the Americas, Africa, and Eurasia. Its …

From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes
a sweeping look at the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the …

Historical accounts of democracy's rise tend to focus on ancient Greece and pre-
Renaissance Europe. The Decline and Rise of Democracy draws from global evidence to …

The term Anthropocene initially emerged from the Earth System science community in the
early 2000s, denoting a concept that the Holocene Epoch has terminated as a consequence …

Ancient Rome was the capital of an empire of~ 70 million inhabitants, but little is known
about the genetics of ancient Romans. Here we present 127 genomes from 29 …

Over the past decade, a genomics revolution, made possible through the development of
high-throughput sequencing, has triggered considerable progress in the study of ancient …

Since the onset of COVID-19, there has been a surfeit of commentary arguing that 2020 will
have transformative effects on world politics. This paper asks whether, decades from now …

Existing mortality estimates assert that the Justinianic Plague (circa 541 to 750 CE) caused
tens of millions of deaths throughout the Mediterranean world and Europe, helping to end …

Lead pollution in Arctic ice reflects midlatitude emissions from ancient lead–silver mining
and smelting. The few reported measurements have been extrapolated to infer the …