Research on cultural and technological evolution is thriving at our Institute of Evolutionary Biology, which makes me very happy. It is an exciting time for multidisciplinary approaches to biological evolution! #CultEvo Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) Tomas Marques-Bonet science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Your LLM isn't doing math - it's using clever pattern matching tricks. LLMs perform arithmetic using neither robust algorithms nor memorization; rather, they rely on a “bag of heuristics”, as proposed in this paper. 🤔 Original Problem: Do LLMs solve reasoning tasks using

New Preprint‼️ Old age variably impacts chimpanzee engagement and efficiency in stone tool use. Info in 🧵biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

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Is it the first sign of a big change or the cry of despair of the last righteous? I hope for the first one. Using AI for editing & proof without authors consent is far beyond the standards @ElsevierArchaeo

A heartbreaking part of the proliferation of AI, algorithms and all the automatic opt-in is that, increasingly, the only safe way to avoid it is to stay away. Post fewer pictures, less writing, share less, spend less time searching. What a failure of the promise of the internet!

New paper out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… We propose how knapping could have taken hold among early hominin groups. Mainly, a reliance on naturally occurring flakes to cut could have bridged a gap between the making of bone flakes, and intentional knapping of stone flakes. 1/7

New Publication Alert! 🚀 Excited to share my paper, based on my PhD research, published today in the Journal of Human Evolution! 🎉. Thanks to Yonatan Sahle Dr. Jayne Wilkins Dr Ben Schoville for the support. 🔗 Link to the article here: 👉 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S00… HERI GENUS

BREAKING: Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday signed into law a massive higher education overhaul to ban diversity efforts, regulate classroom discussion, and prohibit faculty strikes, among other things. The law will take effect in 90 days. buff.ly/wS6ip7Y

I think a lot of companies are gonna go out of business and people are gonna lose their jobs.

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🚨🚨 New preprint 📜 with Mathieu Charbonneau (Mathieu Charbonneau): Modelling the emergence of open-ended technological evolution (arxiv.org/abs/2508.04828). Feedback welcomed! #Evolution #Technology #Culture #OpenEnded #TechnologicalEvolution #CulturalEvolution 🧵: 1/29