📣 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

EHBEA MEMBERS! We are discussing about future EHBEA meetings (e.g. in person, online, hybrid) and we want to hear your opinion Check your email (and spam folder!) for the survey link, and don’t forget to fill it out 🙏 Didn’t get it? Reach out to Jeanne Bovet www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our...

aDNA reveals matrilineal groups in Neolithic eastern China www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It's been 2 months since Israel blocked supplies of food, aid & water. Gazans are slowly starving & dying. The silence & complicity of the international community is nauseating. #Gaza #Israel #CeaseFireNow www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Eye-tracking shows eyes, nose, and mouth draw the most attention in facial attractiveness and dominance judgements by Zaneta Patkova et al | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New paper out with @heidicolleran.bsky.social in @pnasnexus.org academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...

Partner traits of women in arranged and self-choice marriages | Evolutionary Human Sciences | by Kristin Snopkowski and Annemarie Hasnain. Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Ruth Mace How far does the apple fall from the tree? Divorce transmission varies by frequency within the ethnic group in Finland by CarolineUggla | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This. An emergency recall of parliament on a weekend for British Steel. Nothing at all for UK HE which employs far more people, has already shed 10,000 academic jobs, with several institutions on the brink of collapse. A reminder: we train all the doctors, teachers, engineers, nurses, lawyers &c &c

I was invited to give a talk on violence against women in São Paulo, for a huge feminist event. One woman shared that she had been a victim of domestic violence, & asked others to put their hand up if they’d also been abused. Almost *everyone* in the audience put up their hand

Relationship between trackmakers of the Laetoli footprints from gait synchronization | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - Wataru Nakahashi www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Evolution's Gradual Path: New Model Reveals How Mammals Changed Over Time by Mark Pagel FRS scientia.global/wp-content/u...

🚨Job alert! Two-year postdoc to join the Rep2SI project at @lsemethodology.bsky.social! We're looking for a modeller to join our team of ethnographers & experimentalists studying the role of reputation and reputational concern in perpetuating social inequality. Apply by 4 May: tinyurl.com/yjccd3vv

"evidence that economic reciprocity may be more abundant in real-world settings, sharpening the findings of the behavioural study of cooperation and contributing to the more naturalistic study of reciprocity and prosociality."

🚨CALL FOR POSTERS🚨 Last days for you to apply, and attend, the 12th EconBio Workshop on “Sex Differences in Human Life History Evolution”! Just send your CV+abstract+cover letter before March 31 to [email protected] More info in www.iast.fr/conferences/... @ehbea.bsky.social

New paper by Mikhail Ordin discusses why we say walked and not edwalk to speak about the past, or pens and not spen to talk about multiple objects | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Prestigious elders and urban men exert social influence on men’s beliefs about gender.

Today Tuesday one of our own Ashleigh Wiseman💀, @UCLanthropology. DFL 3.30-5pm followed by 🍷 "How to build a hominin: simulations of locomotion" Our Evolutionary Anthropology research seminars (Tuesday afternoons) are listed here - come along ucl.ac.uk/anthropology...

Thinking of doing an MSc in Evolutionary Anthropology? A reminder that UCL are offering **200 bursaries** for home fee students: www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships... 👀 More about our MSc in Human Evolution and Behaviour here: www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...

Social induction and the developmental trajectory of participation in intergroup conflict by vervet monkeys | Madison Clarke et al in Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Tuesday Why animals talk DFL UCLanthropology 3.30-5 followed by drinks www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology...

Good one for International Women’s Day!

Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail. I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review. www.nature.com/articles/d41...