John Hawks ✓
@johnhawks · Wisconsin · joined 01 Jul 2009
I'm a paleoanthropologist. I explore human fossils and genomes to understand where we came from and what we share with our ancestors.
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Dunbar’s number is one of those concepts that is just further entrenched by every demonstration that it’s not true. The final boss of 1990s pop science myths.
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The famous limit of 150 friends a human brain can supposedly hold turns out to rest on a calculation too wide to support any specific number, let alone the one everyone quotes https://t.co/BhMhNTpO3z
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@johnhawks Paleoanthropology needs to abandon the notion of a geographical "origin" - a very simplistic monolineage concept invalidated by overwhelming fossil and molecular evidence of a complex reticulate network for the entire recognized Homo existence period.
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@johnhawks There have always been two races, African and Eurasian.
“According to Hawks' speculation, the stems were likely African. One scenario places the majority (~80%) group in southwest Asia (Levant) and the minority in East or southern Africa, separated by the Sahara. Fos
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@johnhawks It's a beautiful picture you paint. So much time and geography. Of course we get only a pin hole view. We are blessed for this view.
This is science communication at its highest form.
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“In broad strokes, it appears that the modern human population evolved from a merger of two ancient groups around 300,000 years ago, roughly 80% from one, and 20% from the other.” Who were these stem populations? Here is some informed speculation.
https://t.co/8LjHgCmofQ
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@johnhawks https://t.co/irrJslau7c I'm blown away by the latest research about modern human origins tbh
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@johnhawks Why not question radiocarbon over U-series dating at this time depth and in this context?
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@johnhawks imagine the Denisovan fossils we've lost to consumption by Chinese medicine followers
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Two new Denisovan fossils have emerged from the seafloor of the Penghu Strait, near Taiwan. I look at what these tell us about the survival of Denisovans into the time frame of the “classic” Neanderthals.
https://t.co/pOkJ8ISjZC
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“An average effect size of 285 grams per copy means that around 200,000 metric tons of human muscle can be attributed to this Neanderthal inheritance. That’s two aircraft carriers worth of mass.”
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The story of “The petite bodies of the robust australopithecines” is changing in light of the last 15 years of evidence, and footprints are leading the way.
https://t.co/cwivRyKunM
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12 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.
Median views3 272this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %9.14%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %1.10%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
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| Median views per post | 3 272 | 924 | 3.54× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 9.14% | 3.62% | 2.52× |
| Engagement rate | 1.10% | 1.52% | 0.72× |
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Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
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Last 12 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.
What the audience does
Likes59.2%1 015 in total
Reposts11.7%200 in total
Replies2.9%50 in total
Quotes1.3%22 in total
Bookmarks25.0%428 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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