Bones donâ??t lie. John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin at Madison likes evidence he can put his hands on, so he takes me on a tour of the universityâ??s bone laboratory. There, the energetic 36-year-old anthropologist unlocks a glass case and begins arranging human skulls and other skeletal artifactsâ??some genuine fossils, others high-quality reproductionsâ??on a counter according to their age. Gesturing toward these relics, which span the past 35,000 years, Hawks says, â??You donâ??t have to look hard to see that teeth are getting smaller, skull size is shrinking, stature is getting smaller.â?
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