Prof Joan Silk is in Montpellier ! We are finally going to understand what it means to be a daddy when you’re a primate

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Dans une tribune à lire sur Le Nouvel Obs, 2500 scientifiques appellent à la mobilisation contre l’extrême droite et dénoncent "le discours dominant qui présente le Nouveau Front Populaire comme une menace pour la République" (via @SciRebFr) nouvelobs.com/politique/2024…

👋Associate Professorship in Evolutionary Anthropology.  Full details are available on the SAME website: anthro.ox.ac.uk/article/associ….  The deadline for applications is 12 noon on 7th October 2024.

UPCOMING WEBINAR: Causal Inference from Evolutionary Human Sciences Join us October 3rd 2PM BST | 3PM CEST Register Now > cambridge-org.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

The archives of the International Cognition and Culture Institute (active 2008-2021) are now freely online with past blogs, webinars, and discussions from anthropologists, biologists, cognitive scientists, historians, linguists, and philosophers. cognitionandculture.net/index.html

Sons Shorten Mother’s Lifespan in Preindustrial Families with a High Level of Infant Mortality | The American Naturalist journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.10…

Final call for abstracts for #FRESH (French Network for the Evolution Study of Humans) conference held in Lausanne 25-26th November - with Andrea Migliano as plenary speaker and organized by Cedric Perret fresh2024.sciencesconf.org

Low haemoglobin in arduous seasons is associated with reduced chance of ovulation among women living in the Bolivia… pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39444585/ Oxford Anthropology isem

Can you tell how🌶️SEXUALLY INTERESTED🌶️people are IN YOU? Not 💯 Men who are (a) into short-term mating (eg casual sex) OR (b) good-looking OVERESTIMATE women's interest in them ...esp attractive women Women UNDERESTIMATE men's sexual interest in them journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117…

Two tiers, not one: Different sources of extrinsic mortality have opposing effects on life history traits | Behavi. & Brain Sci. bit.ly/4ehOXex "energetics alone cannot account for the complex empirical record on environmentally-mediated regulation of LH strategies."

Testosterone mediates life‐history trade‐offs in female mammals - Crespi - Biological Reviews - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/br…

Excellent new paper which clearly explains how “a gene-culture coevolution perspective can refute reductionist & determinist claims while providing an inclusive multidisciplinary framework to interpret human variation” Genes, culture & scientific racism pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Group-level signatures in bonobo sociality | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/4g0k8fW "This suggests that rather than groups having different levels of sociality, different patterns of sociality exist in each group"

Population connectivity shapes the distribution and complexity of chimpanzee cumulative culture | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Too many cool talks at #FRESH and more to come ! fresh-cnrs.org

and now ⁦Andrea Migliano⁩ ! Woohoo!

Last spring I gave a workshop on Data Cleaning for Data Sharing Using R where we learned how to assess the quality of a dataset and apply a standardized checklist of cleaning steps in #rstats. ICYMI - The slides and exercise materials are here: cghlewis.github.io/ncme-data-clea…

Environmental factors, lifestyle choices have greater impact on health than genes, a new study published on Nature Medicine finds. #aging By Austin Argentieri, Alex Alvergne, Najaf Amin, Aiden Doherty, et al. doi.org/10.1038/s41591…

What are the evolutionary causes of #endometriosis? If you live in the UK, are menstruating and older than 18, help us by completing this 10min survey nupsych.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6X… Thank u so much!