The Week’s Links 01

This is an experiment. At an online Homebrew Website Club on Wednesday talk turned to week notes, the ones we liked, why we liked them, and so on. Some are mostly personal reflections, others are mostly links, and naturally some are a mixture of both. The ones I like tend towards the linky, but when challenged to share some of the links I had myself enjoyed I couldn't. So, an experiment. Each week or thereabouts, a few links I have enjoyed for one reason or another. Here goes, with no promises. Modern humans evolved from an 80-20 mixture of two deep streams is a recent newsletter from John Hawks (on Substack) that pulls together evidence and speculation on early human evolution. "Lots here," said John Gordon on Mastodon. He's not wrong. It is astonishing how much DNA has revealed about human origins since my own round-up was published in 1982. I have not kept up with all the details of either the evidence or the stories they tell, so there was plenty in Hawks' article that I had to…