Apr 22, 2012
John Hawks is one of the nation's leading palaeoanthropologists and
has lately been working with ancient DNA, recent and earlier Human
Evolution, and an interesting project that is a sort of casting
call for extinct humans and their relatives. Most of you know John
from his famous Internet site called "John Hawks Weblog:
Paleoanthropology, Genetics and Evolution." John is an associate
professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison,
which is one of the better known and respected for this sort of
research. Unless you've been living in a cave, you know that there
are many interesting and exciting things going on in human origins
research these days, and on Sunday morning, on Atheist Talk radio,
John and Greg Laden will cover as many of them as they can. Were
the Clovis people Solutreans? How many hominids were there in
recent prehistory? And what do both ancient and modern DNA studies
tell us about the Neanderthal side of the human family?