John Hawks
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Denisova Cave mystery yak
A domesticated yak. Image: Rod Waddington (Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA)
They’re calling it “Yak X”. The genetic data are described by Jonas Oppenheimer and a team led by Love Dalén, from bovid bone fragments of Denisova Cave and other near...
A visit to Vanguard Cave, a Neanderthal workshop
Vanguard Cave. The people standing just within the cave shadow help give the scale. Image: John Hawks
This month I had the honor of speaking at Calpe 2026, a conference in Gibraltar dedicated to the Neanderthals and their legacy. The famou...
Grieving for infants by primate and hominin mothers
A male adult baboon stands vigil over an infant’s body while the mother forages nearby. Image: Alecia Carter and coworkers (2020, CC-BY)
It’s inevitable in my line of research that I think and write about death. One area that I work to und...
New Denisovans from China’s southwest
Hominin fossils from Bianfu Cave identified as Denisovan. Image: Rao and coworkers (2026)
Over the last few years, genetic and proteomic data have begun to fill in the pattern of Denisovan occupation of China. Three sites with identified D...
Modern humans evolved from an 80-20 mixture of two deep streams
Skulls from Herto (left) and Bodo (right), Ethiopia, may be connected with the ancestral stems. Images: Sailko (Wikimedia Commons)
Around a decade ago, I was working to understand the deep population history of Africa from genomes of livin...
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Paleoanthropologist | Chair and Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin–Madison
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