FINALLY we understand why lactase persistance spread! Effects of ancestry, agriculture, and lactase persistence on the stature of prehistoric Europeans: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

The fitness costs and benefits of hunter-gatherer locomotor engagement | Evolutionary Human Sciences | by George Brill and Mark Dyble. Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It's hiring season at @iast.fr! - 2y research postdoc contract - Full autonomy, you are your own PI - Awesome multidisciplinary environment - All social and behavioral sciences welcome - Seed funding for projects and workshops - Gorgeous city in the south of France www.iast.fr/research-fel...

Funding for students!! New £6k UCL Anthropology MSc Bursary for Home students: www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships... You can also apply to the £10k UCL Bursary at the same time - so if you get both, it should cover all your fees & a chunk of living costs🤞 www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...

Leiden looking good today ;-) 📢 Abstract submission will be open Nov 1st – Dec 15th for EHBEA 2026 ⚡Present your research, connect & collaborate 14-17 April 📝 300 words (extendable to 800 after acceptance) For more information & our full call for abstracts, check www.ehbea2026.com

Happy to announce that reflections on our workshop about non-biological kinship in Vienna last year is already published! @anahcorral.bsky.social @sabinacvecek.bsky.social www.sciepublish.com/article/pii/...

'New proposals by Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, Wiley and Sage were sent to universities this week after their initial offers were decisively rejected by institutions in a sector-wide consultation run by Jisc,...negotiating jointly with Universities UK on behalf of universities.' 1/3

Check out the new 'most read' tab at EHS (Evolutionary Human Sciences), currently topped by this paper by @olkcampbell.bsky.social et al on sex ratio and violence against women

'21st century resurgence of eugenics and scientific racism' @rebeccasear.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk Evolutionary Anthropology seminar. Tomorrow TUESDAY 3.30-5pm DFL followed by 🍷 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Cultural evolution in the laboratory: evolution of cooperative altruistic punishing | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - William Baum and Pete Richerson www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Researchers analyzed 102 “just-so” stories shared in online antifeminist spaces. 83% focused on sex differences and rarely acknowledged speculation. The authors call for renewed discussion and reflection on evolutionary hypothesizing. 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In our new paper, we show why religious signals can serve as reliable markers of commitment: insiders perceive both cooperative and supernatural benefits in participation, but outsiders—who don’t share those supernatural expectations—see no comparable gains, making the signal not worhtwile

Today Tuesday Claudia Wascher on communication in corvids @UCL Anthropology 3.30pm DFL followed by 🍷 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

🚨𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗮𝘀𝘁𝘀! www.ehbea2026.com is now live for our 2026 European Human Behaviour & Evolution Association (EHBEA) conference in Leiden (NL🇳🇱) Check for 𝗮𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻, first 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 & the [𝗔𝗜]𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸! 🗓️ 14–17 Apr 2026 | CBEN pre-conf 14 Apr 📍Pesthuis #EHBEA2026

The Innovation Game: How Arcade Genres Evolve, Imitate, and Collapse www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20... @blaividiella.bsky.social @andrejpaleo.bsky.social

🚨AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 EHBEA is calling for SELF-nominations for their New Investigator Award. If you are doing, or know someone, some really cool research as an early-career researcher please don’t hesitate to apply! DEADLINE: December 19th, 2025 Here is the form👇 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Costly rituals endure because committed members see greater benefits – especially supernatural – despite high estimated cost. New paper by Klocova et al| Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

@sriucl.bsky.social is HIRING 2 permanent Lecturers 🚀 in #QuantitativeSocialScience! It comes with smart and lovely colleagues🌟, a central London office, and many big ideas and questions 🧐 Apply now! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

African harps as units of cultural evolution: a cladistic analysis on their morphology. New paper by Salome Strauch et al| Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Conventional wisdom says motherhood should wait for tenure as before you land a permanent post, #academia is just not that family friendly🙁 @carersinstemm.bsky.social are calling for change and to celebrate their new report, a Saturday🧵on parenting & academia! 1/9 👩‍🔬🧪🔭⚛️ ℹ️: carersinstemm.co.uk

If you are around @ucl.ac.uk later this month, I’ll be giving a talk on Spatial Population Dynamics and Human Evolution on the 28th 🤩 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Happy to share our new paper introducing the Animal Culture Database in Scientific Data: We’re putting together a resource consolidating primary research on cultural behaviors in wild animal populations and how they’re affected by human activity (1/5) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How to quantify the impact of AI on long-run cultural evolution? Published today, I give it a go! 400+ years of strategic dynamics in the game of Go (Baduk/Weiqi), from feudalism to AlphaGo!

📣 Job alert! *Assistant Prof in Computational Social Science*. We're a friendly department, with sharp students, at a great institution, in a lovely city. We have real strengths in computational social science & are looking for a colleague to build this further. Share and reach out with quesions!

New paper with Narhulan Halimbehke, @olkcampbell.bsky.social , Yishan Xie et. al in Human Nature @evobias_erc Our findings suggest attitudes to bride kidnapping driven by cohort replacement link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Released today! SEVEN DECADES: HOW WE EVOLVED TO LIVE LONGER Now available at your favorite bookseller. Leave a review on Goodreads or Amazon if you can. Please help spread the word! #sevendecades @princetonupress.bsky.social

Strategies in the ancient game of Go mirror deep societal shifts, from feudal traditions to today’s AI advisors. @babeheim.bsky.social in EHS www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Looking forward to be in Paris for the launch of the CultureLab!

The count down starts for #CESRabat! Follow @ces2026.bsky.social and join us May 11-13 next year for an exciting meeting in Rabat, Morocco. Massive thanks to the #CESRabat organising committee: Sarah Alami (co-chair) Mathieu Charbonneau (co-chair) Zachary Garfield Edmond Seabright

Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

Centre for Ecology & Evolution autumn symposium & mixer www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

Apply! I postdoc'd at Stony Brook U--great folks there. "The Meave Leakey Postdoctoral Scholar, named in honor of Dr. Meave Leakey’s extraordinary contributions to the understanding of human and primate evolution in the Turkana Basin, will join the SHaPE Lab in the Department of Anthropology."

New paper! ⚡ With Gabriel Aguirre and Marcelo Sánchez, looking at patterns of blowgun types and use across societies of the world. We find areal patterns, similarities mediated by cultural connections, and specific types characterizing distinct branches of the Austronesian language tree. 🎯

Physical copies of this 71-chapter tome now exist. Do encourage your library to buy a copy…also doubles as excellent door stop! Co-edited with Jamie Tehrani and @rachkendal.bsky.social. @oxunipress.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social

Lexical borrowing between click languages of three distinct families provides new insights into the pre-history of southern Africa New paper by Anne-Marie Fehn et al | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Submit your abstract for the 6th FRESH (fresh-cnrs.org) annual conference in the Evo Human Sciences, 4-5th November in Montpellier, with Profs Pascal Boyer & Lluis Quintana Murci - Submit and Register here before 15th of September shorturl.at/xhHgL. See you there!

Using 65,000 works to track how fiction has grown more distant from reality across cultures and centuries | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We’ve all been there

In Memoriam: Dr. Jane Lancaster, Pioneer in Human Evolutionary Sciences (1935-2025) anthropology.unm.edu/news-events/...

"Behavior drives morphological change during human evolution" Our new article is out in @science.org today www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

According to a study published in The Lancet, life expectancy at birth in Gaza declined by almost 35 years between October 2023 and September 2024, before the current phase of acute famine. A harrowing result of the genocide. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I love this kind of paper. A seemingly niche topic—which the authors are genuine experts in—that regardless reveals some more fundamental ideas about how humakind operates. (1/2) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Contrasting modes of cultural evolution: Kra-Dai languages and weaving technologies by Chris Buckley, Guillaume Jacques and others | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Excited to see 1st of the Evoluionary Human Sciences special issue on scientific racism come out! @kevinlala.bsky.social @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social @kztwyman.bsky.social & Marcus Feldman discuss impediments to countering racist pseudoscience & present 5 solutions www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"We propose that fictiveness is not inherently appealing for its own sake but because it enables the crafting of exaggerated content that heightens emotional responses from audiences."

Skewed sex ratios correlate with violence against women from spouses, boyfriends and in-laws, but less so for honour-based violence from natal family @olkcampbell.bsky.social Maheen Pracha @ruthmace.bsky.social | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Accepted manuscript 📃 'Further insights into maternal and paternal human histories in southern Iberia' | Evolutionary Human Sciences ‪@universitypress.cambridge.org‬ 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In a follow-up to our study on accent mimicry last year, we've found that natives are the best at detecting accent mimicry. People from other English speaking countries were, however, worse at mimicry detection than were native listeners. @robfoley.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

So pleased to have won this award. Thank you @ceciliapad.bsky.social @gregoryfiorio.bsky.social @ruthmace.bsky.social @humbehevosoc.bsky.social

Your next Fall read, my new book: SEVEN DECADES: HOW WE EVOLVED TO LIVE LONGER Longevity is shaped by our evolutionary past—imagine aging as opportunity rather than burden. Out Sept 16, preorder w/ code PUP30 for 30% discount: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... @princetonupress.bsky.social