G. Deniz Salali
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Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Anthropology at University College London.
New paper out! Using data from 219 BaYaka HGs and 33 plant species, I find that plants used by more people tend to show stronger agreement on their main function. Drop me an email if you don't have access to the paper and would like a PDF copy.
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
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Plant knowledge among Congo Basin hunter-gatherers: Implications for cultural evolution: Hunter Gatherer Research: Vol 0, No 0
Plants have long been central to human life, from early hominins to contemporary hunter-gatherers and industrialised societies. In many communities, they remain a primary source of treatment alongside or in place of Western medicine. Beyond healing, ...
https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/hgr.2026.14
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New paper out in American Journal of Human Biology! 🌿 We study bitter taste perception among BaYaka hunter-gatherers to ask a simple question: how much of what we taste is biology, and how much is learned through experience? 📄
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Bitter Taste Perception in BaYaka Hunter‐Gatherers
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ajhb.70218
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Really enjoyed talking with Ricardo Lopes (@thedissenteryt.bsky.social) about cultural evolution, social structure, and wellbeing in hunter-gatherers. Thanks for having me on your excellent channel!
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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
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This is such an exciting project! Good luck with the voyage,
@hugospiers.bsky.social
and the team!
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We often say “it takes a village to raise a child.” But it also takes a village to raise a parent. My two cents on motherhood, on
@sapiens.org
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New podcast episode out now - on my rather windy academic journey, from lab benches in Istanbul to the rainforests of Congo.
www.globio.org/deniz/
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Hugo Spiers
about 1 year ago
6 funded PhD studentships available on place and memory:
placememory.net/apply-now-fo...
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PhD Studentships 2025
We are recruiting six PhD studentships to advance knowledge of the dynamic relations between place and memory, and how people navigate together in space and time.
https://placememory.net/apply-now-for-phd-studentships-2025/
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Curious about how children learn in a hunter-gatherer society? Our new mini-documentary is out! Watch here:
youtu.be/fAXgXP9JRDA?...
about 1 year ago
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Centre for Culture and Evolution
about 1 year ago
1/ 🧵 Are We Really Measuring What Matters? Cross-Cultural Challenges in Developmental Research 🌍👶📏 New paper led by CCE’S lovely
@nicolejwen.bsky.social
&
@brucerawlings.bsky.social
, also featuring CCE’s
@michelleakline.bsky.social
and many others. Supported by
@culturalevolsoc.bsky.social
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Construct Validity in Cross-Cultural, Developmental Research: Challenges and Strategies for Improvement | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
Construct Validity in Cross-Cultural, Developmental Research: Challenges and Strategies for Improvement
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/evolutionary-human-sciences/article/construct-validity-in-crosscultural-developmental-research-challenges-and-strategies-for-improvement/B2B08882A7B79A7579C303E3C9822E53
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Liverpool University Press
about 1 year ago
📣Hunter Gatherer Research is currently seeking General Editors. For more information and how to apply, please read the Call for Editors on the LUP website:
bit.ly/HGR-editors
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Our new paper is out! 🚀 BaYaka hunter-gatherer children are 3x more active than WHO recommendations & stay active as they age—unlike US/UK kids, whose activity declines with the start of formal schooling 📉. Read more in @SciReports:
rdcu.be/d72T1
about 1 year ago
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Abbey Page
about 1 year ago
1/ 🧵 New preprint out today 🤩 With
@djsmith90.bsky.social
and co we have done deep-dive into grandmothering in the Agta to unpick the role of demography in shaping the role of grandmothers in direct childcare 👇🧪🏺
#Grandmothering
#demography
#BioAnth
#EvPsych
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