Nature Anthropology is a transnational and transdisciplinary journal devoted to research on human’s biology and biocultural diversity, encompassing the full range of anthropological scholarship on human origin and diversification as well as studies on biological aspects of modern human cultures. Communicating across subfields, the journal features papers in a wide variety of areas, including physical, biological, cultural, and social anthropology as well as human genomics and phenomics, population genetics, ethnology and ethnohistory, archaeology and prehistory, popular culture, and linguistics. At the interface of nature and culture. All articles must be based on a solid body of data, be embedded in a theoretical context relevant to the topic, provide a critical assessment of the evidence and its limitations and must make a significant contribution to the scholarly debate in anthropology. In particular we encourage contributions which cross the boundaries between disciplines and theoretical concepts.
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