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Some favorites:

  • My sketchbook
  • The Flores files
  • The complete Neandertal posts
  • Neandertal DNA FAQs
  • Paleoanthropology and diet
  • Why human evolution accelerated
  • Introgression
  • Human evolution stopping? Wrong, wrong, wrong!
  • Did humans face extinction 70,000 years ago?
  • Did climate kill the Neandertals?
  • Return of the 'amazing' Boskops
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    Recent posts

    • Genetics and archaeology, 2
    • Krapina Neandertal museum
    • African-American mtDNA and regional populations of Africa
    • Texas newborn DNA experimentation
    • Jobs in American science
    • Is there a common coding variant of FOXP2 in southern Africa?
    • Genes and archaeology
    • Online toolkits -- the good and the frustrating
    • What do you do with all these genomes?
    • Genetic lapidaries
    • Crete again
    • Where there's not smoke...
    • A genome from the mid-Holocene of Greenland
    • Bioethics pair
    • An insertion into deep history
    • Gene-a-dope
    • The chimpanzee males who adopt orphans
    • Robot genetics
    • Miocene ape review, in brief
    • Website review: Learn.Genetics
    • We control the horizontal
    • Darwin's mitochondria
    • Why are babies shrinking?
    • Straightening the calibration curve
    • High Pleistocene human effective population size
    • More tools from Crete
    • Neandertal metrosexuals
    • Unbelievable Y chromosome differences between humans and chimpanzees
    • The changing height of Homo erectus
    • The Human Spark, episode 1
    • "The cavemen are happy in the modern world"
    • Crete: Pleistocene port of call?
    • New Year predictions, 2010 edition
    • Climate reconstruction and human evolution, 2: Tracking climate change
    • Return of the "amazing" Boskops
    • So you want to be a paleontologist?
    • Methylation in Neandertals
    • Genetics of brain surface area and cortical thickness
    • "For the time being, Mr. Gretzky is still using his brain."
    • Seeds of MSA diet breadth
    • The Church of personal genomics
    • The fishy spaces of the Middle Pleistocene
    • The first Europeans, in Languedoc
    • Climate reconstruction and human evolution, 1
    • You are what your ancestors ate, part 1

    Blogroll

    Now trying out:

    • A Three-Pound Monkey Brain

    Biological Anthropology:

    • Neuroantropologia
    • Mathilda's Anthropology Blog
    • Yann Klimentidis
    • Foley's Paleoanthro Weblog
    • Mundo Neandertal
    • AnthroSite
    • Greg Laden
    • The Caveman's Corner
    • Bone Girl
    • Afarensis
    • The Mermaid's Tale

    Evolution and genetics:

    • Gene Expression (classic)
    • Gene Expression (SB)
    • David Sloan Wilson
    • Evolgen
    • Behavioral Ecology Blog
    • Epigenetics News
    • Genetic Inference
    • Migrations
    • Evolving Thoughts
    • Eye on DNA
    • Genomicron
    • This Week in Evolution
    • Laelaps
    • Dinochick
    • Everything Dinosaur
    • Differential Biology Reader
    • Rationally Speaking

    Archaeology blogs:

    • Aardvarchaeology
    • Archaeoblog
    • A Very Remote Period Indeed
    • Old dirt - new thoughts
    • Ellery Frahm
    • Remote Central
    • Hot Cup of Joe

    Broader science:

    • Keats' Telescope
    • Aetiology
    • hpb etc.
    • Babel's Dawn
    • Sorting out Science
    • Gordon's Notes
    • Backreaction
    • Not Even Wrong

    Cog blogs:

    • Brainethics
    • Neurophilosophy
    • Developing Intelligence
    • Deric Bownds
    • Madom Fathom
    • Mixing Memory
    • Neurotopia
    • Thinking Meat
    • The Neurophile
    • Cognitive Daily

    Econonomics:

    • Hans Rosling
    • Marginal Revolution

    Eschewing reductionism:

    • Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology
    • Anthropology.net

    Non-science blogs

    • Ann Althouse

    Science reporters

    • Science's Origins Blog
    • Amy Harmon
    • Nicholas Wade
    • Mason Inman
    • Carl Zimmer's The Loom
    • Michael Balter

    Professional organizations:

    • Paleoanthropology Society
    • American Association of Physical Anthropologists
    • American Anthropological Association

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    John Hawks

    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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