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Session notes from our ScienceOnline2012 classroom blogging session

Tue, 2012-02-07 16:19 -- John Hawks

Andrea Novicki has published some of her notes on the session that I organized with Jason Goldman at ScienceOnline2012: "Blogging in the undergraduate classroom". I'll write up my own notes when I have some spare time, as it was a great session with many good experiences shared by the group of attendees.

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.