John Hawks: A Year in Paleoanthropology
Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning
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The Ancient DNA Is Telling Us About Neanderthals and Neandertals
In the 20th century, anthropologists thought about hunting and gathering people's historically ethnographically. They were like, the present is a good model to the past. And I think that the genetics is telling us that that actually is not the case. People who today are living at very low population density on landscapes that have low carrying capacity are highly buffered with their connections through kinship and through cultural relationships across large areas. Whereas with Denise events, relic population seems to have persisted everywhere then re-expanded.
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