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Quote of the day

Fri, 2006-11-17 11:29 -- John Hawks

A conversation:

ME: This Rubin group sequenced cave bear DNA earlier this year, and now they have this Neandertal DNA.

GRETCHEN: So are you at all concerned that they are two thirds of the way to ManBearPig?

ME: I guess that would be NeanderBearPig.

GRETCHEN: This is super serial! We have to stop them from getting pig DNA!

Al Gore preparing to hunt ManBearPig inside Cave of the Winds. Courtesy South Park Studios.

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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.