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Clearing the stack

Sat, 2010-01-30 07:30 -- John Hawks

The Wall Street Journal visits Inanke, Zimbabwe, to look at prehistoric cave paintings: "Magnificence on Cave Walls".

Julien Riel-Salvatore: "Neanderthal wooden structures, sleeping areas and group size at Abric Romaní"

Forget "Right Guard" -- positive selection on armpit odor?

A strong positive selection in mate choice for low-odorant partners with a dysfunctional ABCC11 gene seems a plausible explanation for this striking frequency of a loss-of-function allele.

Vitamin D receptor polymorphisms affect hepatitis infection rates?

Peter Woit on Big Think: "The problem with trendy physicists."

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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.