Thursday, March 1, 2012
7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Ricketson Auditorium
$8 member, $10 non-member, $8 student
What happened to Neandertals? Are their genes among us today? Paleoanthropologist John Hawks will present new genetic discoveries that are shaping our understanding of human biology. Learn about Neandertal lifestyles and their relationship with modern Homo sapiens, and get a first-person account of Denisova Cave, where a Neandertal relative was discovered based only on its genome. Find out more about Hawks’s research and why he spells Neanderthal without the h at http://johnhawks.com/weblog.
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