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Selection versus drift in Neandertal evolution

Sat, 2011-01-01 11:05 -- John Hawks

My graduate student Marc Kissel and I are putting on a poster today at the AAPA meetings. Marc has prepared a nice PDF of the poster and we're putting it here for people to have access after and beyond the meeting. Thanks to the magic of QR codes, we're able to direct people to this page from the poster itself, so welcome!

It's scaled giantly at the moment and I'll work on finding a way to decrease the zoom level. But it will download and display fine on any PDF viewer. Enjoy!

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meetings
Neandertals
genetic drift
natural selection

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.