Sitemap - 2025 - John Hawks
A possible archaic human from Borneo
Top 10 discoveries about ancient people from DNA in 2025
Bringing emotional cognition to deep time
What explains the long stasis of Oldowan sites?
Human skull shape evolved faster than any of the apes
Finding hormone biomarkers in ancient skeletons
Informal hominins, from Denisovan to superarchaic
Deep history from the genomes of India
The problem skulls from Yunxian
A shorter, sharper Out-of-Africa story is emerging
Ten years of Homo naledi in my world
Will humans start living to 150 soon?
Expanding the “Cradle of Humankind”
The gene from Denisovan to Neanderthal to modern mucus
New hominin teeth from Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia
Denisovan HLA and its role in immunity
Hominins voyaged to Sulawesi before one million years ago
Bizarre foods: Neanderthal edition
How archaeologists are missing Pleistocene cultures
Human origins science in 1925: the good, the bad, and the fake
Members' briefing, July 10, 2025
A visit to Malapa, ancient site of Australopithecus sediba
The humanity of a new Denisovan
How evolution became a uniquely American controversy
Members' briefing: June 10, 2025
The Olduvai effect: New questions about meat-eating in human origins
Dire wolves are just the beginning
New clues about human cardiovascular evolution
The ancient Egyptian legacy of anatomical science
Lucy's upcoming Prague visit brings memories of controversy
More hominins raised from beneath the waves
Ghost populations in human origins
The problem when all the fossils are male
What I told my students about the threats to evolutionary science
Helping you find what you're looking for
Consilience, convergence, and consensus
How do hominin fossils get their numbers?
How Homo naledi got into the Dinaledi Chamber
Flexed burials on the right: A sign of Neanderthal-modern exchange?
Research highlight: Burials by Homo naledi
A look at the Sima del Elefante face
Plant-eating and meat-eating in Australopithecus
Pounding water chestnuts on Jordan's ancient banks
Ancient travois use by some of the earliest Americans
Seeing Neandertal teeth as art
Another look at selection and the Black Death
Research highlight: Brain of the Taung Child
Research highlight: Understanding how Homo naledi walked and ran
The circumstances of the Taung discovery
A hard ceiling on modern human dispersal
A look at the Maba hominin skull
The contribution of segmental duplications to human diversity