NRW-Stiftung Type post Author Casey Luskin Date May 22, 2026 CategoriesEvolutionHuman Origins and AnthropologyPaleontology Tagged , anthropology, Aosis, Australopithecines, Australopithecus, autosomes, body plan, body size, bottleneck, brain size, cladogenesis, faces, fossil record, Grok, hominids, Homo, Homo erectus, Homo ergaster, Homo sapiens, human origins, John Hawks, Journal of Molecular Biology and Evolution, Molecular Biology and Evolution, mtDNA, nuchal areas, nuclear DNA, paleoanthropology, population, population size, Religions (journal), Science and Faith in Dialogue, sex chromosomes, skeleton, speciation, Stephen Barr, University of Wisconsin–Madison Not Out of Context: Comments on Hawks et al. (2000) Casey Luskin May 22, 2026 Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology 14 The lead author is John Hawks, a professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, who has a popular blog on paleoanthropology. Read More ›