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E-mail foibles

Mon, 2009-02-16 22:16 -- John Hawks

I've just finished cleaning up more than 1000 messages left in my 2008 e-mail inbox. I am always careful to say in my FAQ that I don't respond to every e-mail -- with some 400 students and 4 children, I have to let some things slide or I would never have time to post. Still, I try to reply to those who brave the internets to find me -- if only to thank them.

So if you've e-mailed and didn't hear back, please accept my apologies and thanks. Except for the guy who wrote about Jesus and the Rosicrucians. No chance I was going to reply to that one.

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Neandertals

For years, I've worked on their bones. Now I'm working on their genes. Read more about the science studying these ancient people.

Denisova

From a finger bone of an ancient human came the record of a completely unexpected population. My lab is working on the science of the Denisova genome.

Acceleration

The advent of agriculture caused natural selection to speed up greatly in humans. We're uncovering some of the ways that populations have rapidly changed during the last 10,000 years.

Malapa

Just outside Johannesburg, the Malapa site is producing some of the most exciting finds in human evolution. This site is the headquarters of the Malapa Soft Tissue Project.