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Evolution & behaviour

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EHBEA
@ehbea.bsky.social
about 8 hours ago
EHBEA is looking for new PRESIDENT and SECRETARY for 2026-2029! 👀 If you know of anybody who could represent EHBEA, nominate them as president! If you know with good organisational skills, nominate them as secretary! DEADLINE: 16/12/2026 HERE IS THE FORM 👇 docs.google.com/document/….
EHBEACommitteeNominationForm_Pres_Sec.doc

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EHBEACommitteeNominationForm_Pres_Sec.doc

EHBEA Committee 2026-2029: Nomination Form The EHBEA Steering Committee is calling for nominations for the following open committee positions for 2026-2029. You are invited to nominate one or more c...
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Mithos
@mithos343.bsky.social
about 8 hours ago
The more I dig into the history of evopsych and business the angrier I get Did you ever get that email, btw?
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Lynda Boothroyd
@drboothroyd.bsky.social
about 11 hours ago
It looks like it's a paper from Will Costello (who would I assume call himself an EPer) and Alberto Acerbi (who I think would not? He's a CultEvo person.)
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Jason Quarrilex
@painttherosesred.bsky.social
about 20 hours ago
I've never seen the source of psychodemography bullshit, and by extension the pseudoscience of evopsych explained quite so succinctly and clearly: p-values are a measure of the rate of false positives of all tests done by everyone, not the probability that the… replicationindex.com/2019….
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Jason Quarrilex
@painttherosesred.bsky.social
about 23 hours ago
Ok, so I'm only 10 minutes in Ive already seen enough to tentatively conclude this is yet another example of social science shenanigans and evopsych pseudoscience. More importantly, tho, this is a post-liberal not a leftist narrative. Postliberalism is a rightist political ideology, so this does…
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Kristian
@kltblom.bsky.social
about 24 hours ago
The good news is that the Trump era marks the last gasp of patriarchal control as cultural evolution speeds toward adaptive, network-based coordination and cooperation. Network television, broadcasting and incompetent bullies are rapidly becoming irrelevant.

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

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Dr. Potts
@wtfm.lol
1 day ago
🌽 American soil changed Halloween: turnips became pumpkins. Bigger, brighter, and more symbolic of the harvest season. A practical and cultural evolution in one orange gourd. Tags: halloween symbols, pumpkin history, folklore adaptation
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Rob Sica
@robsica.bsky.social
1 day ago
"Much existing writing on culture and cultural evolution has gone too far in the cultural direction, thus losing contact with the strategic and goal-directed nature of human action."
Creatures of habit(us): A commentary on Baumard and André (2025)

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Creatures of habit(us): A commentary on Baumard and André (2025)

This little essay is a commentary on the recent paper by my colleagues Nicolas Baumard and Jean-Baptiste André, ‘The ecological approach to culture’.  [Homo sapiens] is as much a rule-f…
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Jason Quarrilex
@painttherosesred.bsky.social
1 day ago
Oh man, so her idea is evopsych nonsense as the basis of standpoint epistemology? I am now very confident her claim is false.
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TLZ
@fettfanlange.bsky.social
1 day ago
"The Secret of Our Success" by @joehenrich.bsky.social. This book explains how intwined human genetic and cultural evolution is, and explains how we've domesticated ourselves so that we can be more cooperative with individuals who are not our genetic relatives.
The Secret of Our Success

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The Secret of Our Success

How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosperHumans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic c...
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Jason Quarrilex
@painttherosesred.bsky.social
1 day ago
Maybe in a perfect world. But like it or not, evopsych guys call their field evolutionary psychology & that's how everyone refers to it. I think we are stuck drawing distinctions between scientific evolutionary neurobiology or physical anthro research & the pseudoscientific evopsych program.
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UVicAnthro
@uvicanthro.bsky.social
1 day ago
April is still out there digging, but today her research focuses on reconstructing the lives and contributions of Ice Age kids and teenagers to human cultural evolution with recent publications on children making ceramics and on how teens experienced puberty in the Upper Paleolithic.
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UVicAnthro
@uvicanthro.bsky.social
1 day ago
@uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social #WomenInScience #Archaeology #DigIt #StoneAgeStyle #IceAgeArt #BeforeAgricultureWasCool
As a kid, Dr. April Nowell, a Paleolithic archaeologist and Professor of Anthropology in our department, always loved history and wanted to be directly involved in discovering it. When her mom came across an ad in the local newspaper asking for volunteers to work on a site in Old Montreal, she jumped at the chance! One week of excavating and this 18-year-old was hooked. Quoted in the local newspaper, who knew that this moment in 1987 would kick off a career leading to interviews with the CBC, The Globe and Mail, The Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, CNN, and more! 💡 April is still out there digging, but today her research focuses on reconstructing the lives and contributions of Ice Age kids and teenagers to human cultural evolution with recent publications on children making ceramics and on how teens experienced puberty in the Upper Paleolithic. 🌍 She also collaborates with colleagues on the study of cave art in southern Australia and on the lifeways of early humans in Jordan where her team uncovered tools with the world’s oldest identifiable blood on them. We now know that 350,000 years ago, these hunter-gatherers ate everything in their environment from ducks to rhinos! 📕Dr. Nowell’s groundbreaking work is captivating audiences worldwide, especially with her book, Growing Up in the Ice Age and the Nature of Things documentary Little Sapiens featuring work with Drs. Mary Lewis and Jennifer French on CBC-Gem and will soon be broadcast in France and Japan. She's even got a Wikipedia page! Talk about making history
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Jason Quarrilex
@painttherosesred.bsky.social
1 day ago
evopsych isnt materialist, its a bunch of dudes speculating about prehistoric conditions in order to naturalize bourgeois sexist prejudices.
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Lynda Boothroyd
@drboothroyd.bsky.social
1 day ago
Say you were looking for a free, online textbook to use in your teaching of #EvoPSych, Human Behavioural Ecology, Cultural Evolution (or all combined)... which of these titles would tempt you most? (see post below...) #EHBEA #HBES #CulturalTransmisison #HigherEduction #TLHE
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David Marx
@digthatdata.bsky.social
1 day ago
Haven't read it in a while, I think it emphasizes more how IP is antagonistic to organic cultural evolution and natural social communicative memetic evolution rather than the toxic economics of the industry, but still good stuff.
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Suet Lee
@suetl.bsky.social
1 day ago
Today is #alife2025 day 1! Workshops under way... We have our own workshop tmw on Cultural Evolution of Planet X, 13.30-16.30, room 4F. Exciting keynotes from James Borg and @uchiyama.bsky.social. Join us!
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MidNighTmAjYk777
@midnightmajyk777.bsky.social
2 days ago
We the People need to put a stop to this surveillance police state ASAP! Overthrow the fascist oligarchy, and repurpose their data centers in ways that actually help real progress and cultural evolution. Apply all quantum computing power to realize the molecular replicator NOW!

I think often about the Amazon engineer who wrote in an open letter to the company that Ring was “incompatible” with a free society.

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@feenanoor.bsky.social
3 days ago
Sandhya Shantaram Legacy in Indian Cinema: The Golden Era Remembered Sandhya Shantaram legacy in Indian cinema remains one of the most profound stories in the history of India’s cultural evolution. Her passing in October 2025 reignited discussions about the timeless grace, innovation, and…
Sandhya Shantaram Legacy in Indian Cinema: The Golden Era Remembered

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Sandhya Shantaram Legacy in Indian Cinema: The Golden Era Remembered

Sandhya Shantaram legacy in Indian cinema remains one of the most profound stories in the history of India’s cultural evolution. Her passing in October 2025 reignited discussions about the timeless grace, innovation, and emotional depth that defined her artistry. Beyond the headlines of her death, her name stands as a powerful symbol of how cinema, when merged with authenticity and passion, can transcend generations and shape national identity.
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Jason Quarrilex
@painttherosesred.bsky.social
3 days ago
Its weird, after reading that last article in Aeon by Manvir Singh i did not think that my opinion of him (or the field if anthropology for that matter) was likely to get lower. This question begging apologia for evopsych nonsense showed me how wrong i was.

"Human social organization during the Late Pleistocene: Beyond the nomadic-egalitarian model"

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Piston Developers 🍿🥤
@pistondeveloper.bsky.social
3 days ago
I am not sure we have good ideas of what this actually means until we have robots with cultural evolution and can study it. Yet, it is on these things we use standardization and statistical methods. A lot of life quality improvements happen from these systems getting better.
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Jon F. Zeigler
@jfzeigler.bsky.social
3 days ago
More work on the Cultural Evolution Game today. The new version is going to be more streamlined. Instead of a set of "tech tracks" and a set of specific developments spaced out on those, there's going to be a list of "cultural capabilities" that are arranged in a tree structure. (1/4) #gamedesign
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Shoubhik Banerjee
@knaticat.bsky.social
3 days ago
Had a great time meeting and learning from researchers in the fields of cultural evolution, collective intelligence and psychology in the COSMOS summer school held in the beautiful city of Tokyo. Thanks a lot to the amazing duo @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social & @thecharleywu.bsky.social for organizing!
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