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How to stop students cramming for exams? Send them to sea An innovative proposal to stop exam over-preparation, plus William Bateson's 1924 take on the previous century of biology, in the weekly dip into Nature's archive. Twitter Facebook Email 100 years ago Access options Access through your institution Change institution Buy or subscribe Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals Get Nature+, our best-value online-access subscription 24,99 € / 30 days cancel any timeLearn more Subscribe to this journal Receive 51 print issues and online access 185,98 € per year only 3,65 € per issueLearn more Rent or buy this article Prices vary by article type from$1.95 to$39.95Learn more Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout Additional access options: Log inLearn about institutional subscriptionsRead our FAQsContact customer support Nature 629, 47 (2024) doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-01209-y This article features text from Nature's archive. By its historical nature, the archive includes some images, articles and language that by twenty-first-century standards are offensive and harmful. Find out more. Reprints and permissions Subjects HistoryScientific communityEducation Latest on: Ancient DNA traces family lines and political shifts in the Avar empire News & Views 24 APR 24 Network of large pedigrees reveals social practices of Avar communities Article 24 APR 24 Charles Darwin investigates: the curious case of primrose punishment News & Views 23 APR 24 Jobs W2 Professorship with tenure track to W3 in Animal Husbandry (f/m/d) The Faculty of Agricultural Sciences at the University of Göttingen invites applications for a temporary professorship with civil servant status (g... Göttingen (Stadt), Niedersachsen (DE) Georg-August-Universität Göttingen W1 professorship for "Tissue Aspects of Immunity and Inflammation" Kiel University (CAU) and the University of Lübeck (UzL) are striving to increase the proportion of qualified female scientists in research and tea... Lübeck University of Luebeck W1 professorship for "Bioinformatics and artificial intelligence that preserve privacy" Kiel University (CAU) and the University of Lübeck (UzL) are striving to increase the proportion of qualified female scientists in research and tea... Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein (DE) Universität Kiel - Medizinische Fakultät W1 professorship for "Central Metabolic Inflammation" Kiel University (CAU) and the University of Lübeck (UzL) are striving to increase the proportion of qualified female scientists in research and tea... Lübeck University of Luebeck W1 professorship for "Congenital and adaptive lymphocyte regulation" Kiel University (CAU) and the University of Lübeck (UzL) are striving to increase the proportion of qualified female scientists in research and tea... Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein (DE) Universität Kiel - Medizinische Fakultät Access through your institution Change institution Buy or subscribe Subjects HistoryScientific communityEducation Sign up to Nature Briefing An essential round-up of science news, opinion and analysis, delivered to your inbox every weekday. Email address Yes! Sign me up to receive the daily Nature Briefing email. I agree my information will be processed in accordance with the Nature and Springer Nature Limited Privacy Policy. Sign up
Ancient DNA traces family lines and political shifts in the Avar empire News & Views 24 APR 24 Network of large pedigrees reveals social practices of Avar communities Article 24 APR 24 
Charles Darwin investigates: the curious case of primrose punishment News & Views 23 APR 24 Jobs W2 Professorship with tenure track to W3 in Animal Husbandry (f/m/d) The Faculty of Agricultural Sciences at the University of Göttingen invites applications for a temporary professorship with civil servant status (g... Göttingen (Stadt), Niedersachsen (DE) Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 
W1 professorship for "Tissue Aspects of Immunity and Inflammation" Kiel University (CAU) and the University of Lübeck (UzL) are striving to increase the proportion of qualified female scientists in research and tea... Lübeck University of Luebeck 
W1 professorship for "Bioinformatics and artificial intelligence that preserve privacy" Kiel University (CAU) and the University of Lübeck (UzL) are striving to increase the proportion of qualified female scientists in research and tea... Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein (DE) Universität Kiel - Medizinische Fakultät 
W1 professorship for "Central Metabolic Inflammation" Kiel University (CAU) and the University of Lübeck (UzL) are striving to increase the proportion of qualified female scientists in research and tea... Lübeck University of Luebeck 
W1 professorship for "Congenital and adaptive lymphocyte regulation" Kiel University (CAU) and the University of Lübeck (UzL) are striving to increase the proportion of qualified female scientists in research and tea... Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein (DE) Universität Kiel - Medizinische Fakultät 
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