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Sat, 2008-12-06 15:53 -- John Hawks

If you look to the top of the left sidebar, you'll see that I've enabled a search box. This is a pretty good search function, I've been testing it for some time.

The search on the old system never worked very well, so I'm sure many readers didn't even notice it was gone.

But over the past few weeks I've gotten a number of requests for info that might be found deep in the site -- now it's only a search away!

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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.