John Hawks
Our origins shape our future
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Rethinking Homo erectus and Denisovans with ancient proteins
A premolar attributed to Homo erectus from Longtan Cave, Hexian, China. Image: Song Xing and coworkers (2014, CC-BY)
The headlines this week are that scientists have obtained protein data from Homo erectus teeth, showing a link between thi...
A new age for ‘Ubeidiya
Sunset over the Paleolithic ‘Ubeidiya site. The trenches within the grassy area in the foreground are results of archaeological excavations that began in the 1960s. Image: Omry Barzilai, Israel Antiquities Authority
‘Ubeidiya is a prehisto...
How human evolution has been speeding up
Bronze Age individual from western Eurasia with a prominent supraorbital torus. Photo: John Hawks
Nineteen years ago, I wrote about my collaborative work showing that human evolution has recently accelerated. Our study found parts of the g...
U.S. federal support for human origins research may be over
Image: Heritage Daily (CC-BY-SA)
Last year around this time, my students asked me, “How threatened do you feel the current political climate is regarding human evolution, medical genetics, and your own research?” I gave them my honest answ...
Ancient handaxes made from geodes
Handaxe made from nodule with two geodes exposed. Image: Barkai and Shalata (2026)
Earlier this month, Ran Barkai and Muataz Shalata published a new article describing fascinating Acheulean artifacts from the Sakhnin Valley of northern Isr...
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Paleoanthropologist | Chair and Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin–Madison
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