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Neandertals talking from the past

Tue, 2009-08-25 21:37 -- John Hawks

I'm getting a lot of hits this month on a post from last year, "The amazing talking Neandertals". Don't know why....

There have been a couple of really informative papers in the last month about Neandertal genetics, I'll see if I can't get some information up about them soon.

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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.