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Upcoming appearances

Sun, 2009-02-08 13:55 -- John Hawks

I will be giving two public lectures out of town later this week.

The biggest is this Thursday evening, February 12, when I will be giving the Darwin Day lecture at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. This is a really great venue, and I'm really looking forward to it! So I'm bringing out all the good stuff:

Neandertals, Darwin and the Sicilian Mafia: What do they have in common?

If you're in the SE Wisconsin area, the lecture is Thursday 2/12, at 7:00 pm, in the Young Auditorium at UWW.

Earlier in the week, on Wednesday, I'll be giving a lecture in the Human Genetics department at the University of Chicago. This talk will cover some of my current research on recent selection in humans, as well as the connections between our evolutionary history and documented written history. The title is:

Spatial dynamics of positive selection, language dispersals, and human history

If you're familiar with UC, you're ahead of me in finding the place. The talk will be Wednesday 2/11, at 4:00 pm in CLSC 101.

Tags: 
recent selection
Hawks sightings
spatial dynamics
Darwin

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.