The genetic signal in their bones points to something in the deep ancestral history of that founding population that we do not yet fully understand.

That is where the story is, right now.

In the uncertainty, in the ongoing work, in the progressive accumulation of evidence that is gradually narrowing the range of the unknown.

The caves of Lagoa Santa have been giving up their secrets for nearly two centuries.

They are not finished yet.

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The Science of Uncertainty and Why It Is Valuable

One of the things that the Population Y debate illustrates most clearly — and one of the things that careful science communication should make visible rather than hide — is that uncertainty is not a failure of the scientific process.