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  • Charitable gifting

    Sun, 2012-11-11 21:03 -- John Hawks

    It's getting close to the holiday season, and many of us are doing a lot of gift shopping. Every so often I like to remind readers that they can click on Amazon links from this website, which gives me a small percentage of your purchase at no additional cost to you. The Amazon search links are always on the right sidebar.

    Lately I've been doing all my reading on the Kindle, either on my keyboard 3G wireless version or with the Kindle software on the iPad. If I were buying a new Kindle today, it would probably be the paperwhite 3G Kindle, but you'll have to wait for a Christmas delivery on that one.

    I'm posting today because I noticed some great values on the Kindle store, including several books marked down to $3.99 or less. One of those is Don Prothero's book, Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters, which would make a great gift for the person in your life who needs to hear the evidence...

    If you don't buy stuff, don't forget you can donate with my PayPal link over on the right sidebar. The donations over the last year have been really important to meeting my server costs.

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  • An e-book library

    Fri, 2011-11-04 08:09 -- John Hawks

    Libraries have gone into e-book lending in a big way recently, and now Amazon is getting into the act with its Amazon Lending Library. I've been watching e-books pretty closely, and this seems like an interesting development: get a Kindle and Amazon Prime, and borrow a book at a time for free -- sort of like Netflix for books.

    There are limits on which books. The Wall Street Journal points out (subscription) that none of the six largest publishers are participating. I'd be interested to know what kind of consideration Amazon gives to publishers for allowing their e-books to be lent, and what impact it has on the rankings of those books in the Amazon store.

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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.