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John Hawks
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Paleoanthropologist | Chair and Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin–Madison 🧪🏺💀https://www.johnhawks.net
“No PCA tree inferred from any of the 2,400,000 shape datasets was identical to the sampled tree, regardless of the number of axes.”

It has become so routine to see studies of skull shape, tooth shape, enamel-dentine junction, all arguing for phylogenetic classification.
November 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM