John Hawks

@johnhawks

I'm a paleoanthropologist, exploring ancient sites and human genomes to uncover our origins. Follow along!

Wisconsin, and field sites around the globe
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    There’s also the cost to the planet. Reading the IPCC report now and it’s so frustrating that scientists call for action on climate change yet we can’t come up with better ways to network than to fly places.

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    a question I have been asking myself a lot recently: why did post-neolithic civilizations around the world reject cannibalism as part of death/funeral rituals, after embracing it for maybe millennia?

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    The old Toilet Paper timescale prac is back! 4.6 billion years of Earth History vs 500 sheets of toilet paper 🌍

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  4. Oct 10

    Way to go !

    We are so proud of our own Dr Julie Lesnik, who was one of four faculty at Wayne State to receive the Prestigious Junior Faculty Research Award from the WSU Academy of Scholars tonight! Way to go!
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    In summary, toes are cooler (& more fascinating) than I realized! I plan to keep my mine for now :) Toe joint dynamics (esp. stiffness) have a larger effect on gait mechanics than I expected. We r excited to continue this line of research. Stay tuned! 9/9

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    Oct 10

    I've spent most of my research career studying ankles, knees & hips. But we recently took a detour to examine the role of toe joint dynamics. Our first study has yielded some interesting and also unexpected results thus far... 1/n

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    Oct 10

    Proud to have recieved the gold medal award for science and society tonight from the . At the ceremony I spoke about the extraordinary teams of scientist and explorers behind this work - thanks to the Academy and thanks colleagues

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  8. Oct 9

    For folks at the conference in San Diego next week, I'll be hanging out in the Inspiration Lounge on Thursday 10/18, starting at 12:30. Come stump me on human origins!

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  9. Oct 9

    Holocene migrations happened, but possibly natural selection accelerated some demographic changes, or filtered some alleles from spreading. At an extreme, ignoring selection might make "ghost populations" appear in models.

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    "It remains to be seen how much of what we think we know about human history has been thrown off by non-neutral evolutionary forces." Potentially radical overturning of 'settled' migration paradigms?
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  10. Oct 9

    Have to give a presentation next week that requires Powerpoint be uploaded in advance. Haven't used PP in 15 years. Seriously considering making timed video of Prezi to embed in PP.

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    Oct 9

    You can watch the livestream of my NYU conversation with & about heredity at this link, starting at 6:30 pm ET

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  12. Oct 9

    Um, what? “Because Crispr involves only the removal of DNA, not the addition of new material, the resulting produce isn’t considered genetically modified organisms in the U.S. or Canada, Dr. Van Eck said.”

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  13. Oct 9

    "Background selection and biased gene conversion affect more than 95% of the human genome and bias demographic inferences"

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  14. Oct 9

    Endorse. I submit papers with words spelled out and often editors insist that I take out the words and use abbreviations in their place. We don't need the cognitive load that abbreviations impose.

    I feel strongly there needs to be an editorial ban on using excessive abbreviations - it makes reading articles near impossible when you have to spend time flipping back and forth for definitions and I've almost given up on a good article in despair and fury.
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  15. Oct 9

    Of course, the mechanisms of background selection and draft were formulated before genome-wide data were available. But most people still assumed the genome was 98% neutral.

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  16. Oct 9

    I think of how hard we had to fight fifteen years ago to get people to acknowledge that selection had an important effect on genome-wide variation.

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  17. Oct 9

    Great insight article by : "Just 5% of the human genome is subject to neutral evolution, but this process remains central to understanding the history of human migration across the Earth."

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    Oct 9

    Don't miss the lecture this Thursday, October 11, at 7PM at the Middleton Performing Arts Center! Part of our ongoing lecture series and the

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  19. Oct 9

    Sorry, cereal-eating is a seriously bad choice for a "no biology" argument. Celiac is a major factor. Evolutionarily recent shift in environment for diet is certainly no less than for social factors relevant to depression.

    The answer is biology. We (some of us; I'm not so sure) think that there is a meaningful biology of depression, dissociable from the phenotype; we figure there is no biology of cereal eating. But that too is a promise, not a reality. I've been waiting for 30 years. /end
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  20. Oct 9

    "it had never even crossed my mind to think that research whose results were akin to “Group X eats 34% more than Group Y under Condition Z” could be done problematically" On Wansink and scientific wishful thinking by

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