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Flores para los muertos

Tue, 2009-04-21 12:20 -- John Hawks

A reader passes this along:

[I]n case you weren't aware Stony Brook is gracing the world with a sneak peak into its Hobbit discussions. The address of their webstream is https://tlt.stonybrook.edu/webcast/Pages/default.aspx.

They have a number of earlier meetings archived there, so I hope they will do the same with this meeting so those of us who might like to make materials available to students will be able to do so.

UPDATE (later): Oops -- the link was broken. Fixed now.

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.