John Hawks
@johnhawks
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I'm a paleoanthropologist. I explore human fossils and genomes to understand where we came from and what we share with our ancestors.
Wisconsin
Joined July 2009
RT @HermanPontzer: We need to focus on diet if we want to end the obesity crisis. And we need to focus on the obesogenic foods (UPF maybe?)….
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RT @HermanPontzer: What are the relative impact of diet vs physical activity on the global obesity crisis? New paper out @pnas uses the DLW….
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My Scopes Trial retrospective continues: “Looking back at the 1920s, this era unquestionably offered a weird landscape of ideas about how humans evolved. Yet this look at the past offers some lessons that resonate in today’s world.”.
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RT @LeeRberger: We haven’t talked much about the Lefika la Noka tufa site, a truly unusual site I rediscovered in 2008 just before discover….
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Brilliant day yesterday working through the amazing fossils of other animals (besides the hominins) from Malapa. Wits University has one of the best comparative collections of skeletons of African mammals.
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“It is a tragedy for science if we ignore these places, and it’s a tragedy for the people in those places if they feel they can’t become scientists. We’re poorer for it.”.
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“Paleoanthropology is not a discipline in which novel ways of viewing the world gain early acceptance”—William Kimbel.
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Great to see the preprint on wooden artifacts from Gantangqing, China, come out in @ScienceMagazine . I reviewed these with other great sites with wooden artifacts last year!.
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I have two students at this moment looking for simple linear measurements on a hominin skeleton that was published in @ScienceMagazine a while ago, and the measurement table has no measurements! I told them I’m sorry they had to find out this way about researchers who hide data.
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RT @df9465: @paleobyliam The harder version of this answer is that I think museums have got their messaging wrong if they want to keep ever….
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RT @WryCritic: Reading the retrospection on the criticism of the original Walking With Dinosaurs from its chief palaeontology consultant, M….
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“It’s well understood among museum professionals that people like to look at bodies. ‘We did a mummy exhibit in San Diego and attendance tripled,’ Trish Biers, a former associate curator at the San Diego Museum of Us, told me.”.
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“A recent preprint linked the anatomy of the one-million-year-old Yunxian 2 Homo erectus cranium to the much later Harbin skull. Maybe the Dragon people had an autochthonous tendril stretching beyond the Denisovan branch.” .
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I welcome the way that evidence of ancient interbreeding invites us to expand our thinking about humanity. For the Harbin skull, finding connections with Denisovans helps place it and other fossils within our network.
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RT @johnhawks: “Extraordinary ideas and abilities probably existed in most ancient populations. Today, in our very large population with hu….
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Oh no. No no no. No.
Denisovan man standing next to a modern man, based only on the 3 skeletal remains that have been discovered so far and keeping all other bones equally as proportionately larger than modern man…
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Great post on the historic context of evolution in education in Quebec.
Evolution and education in Québec.
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Writing about Harbin now, in the meantime just noting it does add yet another male to a male-biased sample.
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RT @tylerstoneart: @TylerGreenfieId @ausar_the This thread sums it up perfectly (and makes me giggle every time I look at it). https://t.co….
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