"Cloaking" is like the physics version of the hobbits -- catchy name from a fantasy story and fascinating to the press. But there came a time reading "invisibility cloak" stories that I realized, everyone else was thinking of Harry Potter, while I was thinking of Klingons.
JOHN HAWKS is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. I was trained as a paleoanthropologist, studying human evolution from an integrative perspective. My research focuses on the processes affecting human genetic evolution across the last 6 million years.
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