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Thanks to all

Fri, 2011-06-24 22:14 -- John Hawks

I want to take a moment to thank everyone whose generous donations have allowed me to pay for the site hosting and upkeep. Everyone who uses my Amazon links donates 6 percent of their purchases to the site at no additional cost to them. For those of you who have it the PayPal donation link, you are really wonderful people. I am awed and humbled that the site means enough to people to get them to donate directly.

I'm going to Siberia next week to visit Denisova Cave, and after that to South Africa. I'm going to try to give a full report here. There's an awful lot going on in my research and travels this summer. And of course, there was the little matter of a tornado destroying our garage. I can only say that things are going to get even more exciting as we go forward, and it's the support of all the readers that enables me to update everyone on the science.

So again, thanks!

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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.