This is a helpful review for those who study physiology, but less about effects of social context. Or for those who study social context, but know less about physiology.

If, by chance, we get to come back in another form, I think I would like to be a cockatoo.

Joe Henrich has won the Carty Award from the National Academy of Sciences: "Henrich’s fundamental contributions have transformed our understanding of how cultural evolutionary forces shape human behavior and psychology." www.nasonline.org/award/john-j...

And, science is the product of individual labor and passion. The impact of funding cuts on scientists:https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00091-0?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20260122&utm_source=nature_etoc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CONR_41586_AWA1_GL_DTEC_054CI_TOC-260122

The data tell the story: US science is in crisis www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Excited for the new Transmissions episode on ASU's Sarah Mathew on how human warfare evolved, and her fieldwork in Kenya. Watch here: youtu.be/eUqEcxf5uBQ?... New Episodes monthly! Created by @ferylbadiani.bsky.social and @ahnisnaahsi.bsky.social CC: @arizonastateuni.bsky.social

Just in case you need a visual: xkcd.com/1379/

#GreatAdaptations The adaptive value of diversity www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagaz...

#GreatAdaptations Intransitive strategies in lizards www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagaz...

How exactly does this work? FEWER staff will get LESS outside help and this will REDUCE their workload. Color me skeptical. www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagaz...

#GreatAdaptations Because we all need a bit of levity these days.

#GreatAdaptations This is clearly a very early April Fool's joke

My bet is 2026 is going to look much worse. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It wasn't hard to see this coming, but even so it's hard to accept. Anyone know whether other divisions were affected?

#GreatAdaptations Sadly males may be able to impress females, but not see them.

#GreatAdaptations Lethal intergroup aggression in chimpanzees has adaptive benefits (for the victors) www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

#GreatAdaptations New data from a species that keeps teaching us more about how females hold their own in reproductive conflicts with males.

Hard to think of a better epitaph for a scientist than this: “She inspired us to see the world with both rigor and heart” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

So very sad and so very unnecessary.

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

More interesting data on Guinea baboons and more evidence of the diversity in social/mating systems among the awesome Papionins

Post-doc position with James Higham at NYU looking at the effects that hurricanes have on aging and how sociality may mitigate these effects. bioanth.org/jobs/post-do...

An interesting (and unusual) fission event in olive baboons. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Lovely new data on how Himba women learn to breastfeed successfully.

Did everyone but me know about CtrF to search PDFs?

There are a lot of disappointed second year graduate students whose have already invested time and energy in preparing GFRP applications. There is no excuse for phasing in this new rule without prior notice.

🧪The NSF has made changes to the GRFP solicitation and eligibility TODAY that may change your eligibility! PLEASE read through the solicitation if you were planning to apply and speak to your mentors about the merits of applying: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Some very good advice for thriving in graduate school dorsaamir.medium.com/modest-advic...

New evidence about how do people in a small scale society acquire foraging skills and knowledge?

Good news. Better news, there are still GFRPs for Life Sciences (due Oct 27) and Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences (due Oct 28).

#GreatAdaptations Better than science fiction www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#GreatAdaptations Even cuter and more amazing than regular size sea horses How the Pygmy Sea Horse Lost Its Snout www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/s...

#GreatAdaptations A new spin on the old adage: I'm all thumbs

New paper: Human dexterity and brains evolved hand in hand www.nature.com/articles/s42...

This would be fun

#GreatAdaptations In the deep blue sea, it's hard to find mates. So, male anglerfish latch on to females and don't let go. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Herzog & Demps argue for the role of adversity in shaping the human adaptive niche onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#GreatAdaptations Power and leverage are not always based on size.

Female mountain gorillas can outrank males twice their size... ...and exhibit priority of access to resources over these males Article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982225008723 Press release: https://www.mpg.de/25119311/0730-evan-it-s-not-just-about-size-150495-x

A newer synthesis, 50 years after the publication of Sociobiology www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagaz...

Jane's contributions, as founding editor of Human Nature and patron saint of biosocial perspectives on human behavior, have had an important impact on the scope and direction of evolutionary social science. She will be missed.

Comparative data rock. New MS leveraging grooming data on 11 species of papionin primates (baboons, geladas, mandrills, and mangabeys) across 13 sites.

Karen Kramer writes about the importance of women's food foraging and food processing.

#GreatAdaptations The benefits of social bonds for zebra females brill.com/view/journal...

#GreatAdaptations So improbable it must have evolved.

#GreatAdaptations There are good landlords out there, but you might have to live in a jungle www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/s...

#GreatAdaptations Humans have become the selective force for other species Honey, We Shrunk the Cod www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/s...

Social anxiety in macaques Tibetan macaques show self-directed behaviors before facing difficult social situations. For example, when females plan to approach higher-ranking females, or when low-ranking males are plan to approach receptive females. (paper) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Just in time for Father's Day. Lovely data on the positive impact that baboon fathers have on their daughters. (Even in a species that seems adapted for extreme mating effort.)

You like to think that when you retire, your place will be taken by scholars that are younger and smarter than you are who will add to the sum of human knowledge. May not now. www.science.org/content/arti...