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Paleoanthropologist | Chair and Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin–Madison 🧪🏺💀https://www.johnhawks.net
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@johnhawks.bsky.social@johnhawks.bsky.social → @johnhawks.netPhylogenetic conservation scores have long been used to identify selection targets in the genome. With machine learning, they take a new form and will likely grow in popularity. @apragsdale.bsky.social and I investigate their relationship with mutation rates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Show PostWonderful science! Documentation of 597 wooden imprints and charred wood remains from 62-40kya, identifying tools, weapons, domestic artifacts, and structural elements — including wooden spears, pointed sticks, trays/tripods. This shows the importance of wood in Neanderthal technology.
Show PostDelighted to share our new preprint, which places what we have learned about the polygenic basis of the globular human brain shape into a broader evolutional/developmental context 🧪🧠🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Show PostBREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physics to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”
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