John Hawks
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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...
Legs of the last Denisovans
Two new Denisovan fossils have emerged from the seafloor of the Penghu Strait, near Taiwan. The fossils, a partial femur (Penghu 2) and tibia (Penghu 3), belong to two different individuals and were first identified as hominin in 2010, foun...
How Neanderthal ancestry affects growth and muscle
Reconstructed skeleton of a Neanderthal based on a model by Chapman and coworkers, and a modern human skeleton based on the Bodyparts3D model by Mitsuhashi and coworkers.
Some of the regular occurrences in my inbox are messages from women...
The big feet of Paranthropus boisei
A footprint from GaJi10 that may belong to P. boisei, showing a divergent big toe and shallow arch. Image: Kevin Hatala and coworkers (2026, CC-BY-NC-ND)
A couple of years ago I wrote about footprints attributed to Homo erectus and Paranth...
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Paleoanthropologist | Chair and Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin–Madison
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