John Hawks

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Paleoanthropologist | Chair and Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin–Madison 🧪🏺💀https://www.johnhawks.net

Quote with text: Studies of selection in humans across the last 10,000 years have often avoided grappling with the most interesting thing about humans. Humans are not passive actors responding to external changes in environment. Much of the pattern of recent selection happened within environments that people created themselves.
Two images. On left, a stone flake with an encrusted reddish-brown area on the right side of the surface we see. On right, a close-up image of some of the encrustation.
Boomerang made from mammoth tusk with 5 cm scale
Busts of ancient species of human relatives on top of a cabinet
Fossil skull of Australopithecus sediba
Kudu
Statue of Darwin at Natural History Museum, London. Text reads "The most humble organism is something much higher than the inorganic dust under our feet; and no one with an unbiased mind can study any living creature, however humble, without being struck with enthusiasm at its marvellous structure and properties."
Three snowflakes
Photo of snow-covered UW-Madison campus and surrounding area of Madison, with ice-covered lakes
A cave at the base of a limestone cliff face with blue sky above
Image of coastline landscape with beach visible. A long low hilltop in the background has an orange star designating the location of the Dungo IV archaeological site.
A view of a featureless plain leading up to distant hills, with a small gorge at center of frame cut through loess. A small conical tent is visible in the distance at left of frame with two people. An archaeological trench is cut downward along the slope of the gorge.
LIDAR image of landscapes showing linear raised beds over a very large area, with inset image showing the scale of raised beds in a photograph
Fragments of the Deep Skull from Niah Caves. Photo: Darren Curnoe and coworkers 2016
Large entryway of a cave with metal stairs and green cave walls
Cave opening in a rocky slope
A limestone face jutting upward from a large hill, with a cave visible
A stone natural amphitheater with rockshelter beneath
Photo showing stalactites and flowstone curtain with red painted fish images
Amud Cave with natural pillar of rock nearby
Many scissors
Cave with holiday lights and people
Aurora sky with UW-Madison Carillon tower and Social Science Building in the foreground
A circular array of line drawings of fossil hominin skulls, all in varied colors making a rainbow spectrum arrangement
Line drawing of a fossil skull with no teeth
Line drawing of a fragmented skull seen from the front
Line drawing of a Neanderthal skull with many fragments and missing portions viewed from the front
Line drawing of a fossil skull of a hominin with a large sagittal crest, viewed from the front, with many missing parts
Line drawing of a skull of a Paranthropus boisei with orange coloration
Maple tree with bright yellow, red, and dusky purple colors
Line drawings of two australopith skulls both viewed from the front
Line drawing of a portion of a Neanderthal skull with the forehead and brow most visible from the front.
Line drawing of highly fragmented and distorted fossil skull
Line drawing of a fragmented Neanderthal skull from the left side
Line drawing of a fossil skull viewed from the left side
Line drawing of fossil human skull viewing face features
Line drawing of a fossil skull viewed from left side
Line drawing of a fossil skull viewed from the right side
View of a cave opening with green trees visible outside
Line drawing of a fragmented fossil skull from the left side
Line drawing of a fossil skull viewed from the right side
Two line drawings of fossil skulls showing large faces
Line drawing of a skull of Paranthropus boisei seen from above, with very large temporal fossae and sagittal crest visible
Line drawing of a fragmented fossil skull and mandible viewed from the front
Line drawing of a skull of Australopithecus still partially embedded in rock, viewed from right front
Line drawing of a skull with browridge and tall, large face, viewed from the front
Line drawing of a skull portion of Australopithecus viewed from the left side
Line drawing of skull viewed from the left side, with large fragmented area missing including parts of temporal, parietal, and frontal bones.
Lie drawing of a partial skull with right half mostly missing
A line drawing of a fossil human skull with some obvious fragmentation viewed from the right side
Line drawing of fossil skull with missing nasal area and some distortion to frontal bone, seen from front
Photo showing archaeological excavation surface with boardwalk surrounding beneath a structure with glass walls
Line drawing of fossil skull viewed from the left
A black and white line drawing of a skull of a small primate viewed from the front
A drawing of a fossil skull looking toward the face.
Historic black and white photo showing around a dozen archaeological workers digging in a very large hillside