Johannes Putsch’s 1533 map personified the continent as a queen and inspired a wave of mapmaking that depicted places as people, animals, and even plants. "Europa regina" ("Queen Europe") is seen in ...
The coordinates of the office of The Geographer of the National Geographic Society are 38° 54' 18" N, 77° 2' 12" W. You might say that Juan José Valdés, who currently holds that title, knows exactly ...
To what extent can an individual's geographical origin be predicted from their genotype? Two new studies show that, for Europeans, there is an impressive correlation between genetic and geographical ...