Tag Archives: Denisovans
We Need Neandertals or Some as Yet Unknown But Genetically Similar Population Within the Last 100 ky in Our Story
A couple years ago when I first started blogging here, my friend John Edvalson asked me right out of the gate my opinion on the Neandertal-sapiens interbreeding controversy. I think I skirted an answer because, though as a biological anthropologists … Continue reading
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Tagged ALLELE, Denisovans, John Hawks, Neandertals, Sarah Tishkoff
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Dr. Evil!?! Or the Entire Denisova Genome from One Girl’s Finger Bone
University of Wisconsin-Madison paleoanthropologist John Hawks was UA’s second ALLELE lecturer of the season. Hawks was trained at the University of Michigan in anthropology by the famous Milford Wolpoff (he of multiregionalism infamy) & completed a postdoc in evolutionary genetics … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Genetics
Tagged ALLELE, Denisovans, Henry Harpending, John Hawks, Milford Wolpoff, Neandertals, paleoanthropology
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