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paleoanthropology, genetics and evolution

So you clicked on the "last" page?

Mon, 2005-01-03 10:00 -- John Hawks

You had to go and do it, didn't you?

Well, what you've done is find the some of the very earliest posts on the blog. You'll find that my writing has gotten, well, a lot bloggier over time. That's a good thing, I'd say.

Many of the posts with very early dates are administrative -- you'll find the FAQ here for the time being, for example. I'll probably change that in the near future -- when I was on the old blogging platform, giving things early dates was a good way to write them without them showing up on the front page.

You'll also find stuff abstracted out from my courses. And of course, the Flores FAQ -- really the regular updates on the Flores hominids were the way I got started writing for the broader audience of the blog.

So look around and enjoy. And then go up to mid-2005 or so, when the blog really started getting interesting.

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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.