The recent paper of [Clark 2023 PNAS] finds that social status correlates across family lineage in a way that is consistent with genetic transmission. Is genetic transmission the only model that can produce this pattern? Let's take a look ... pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37364122/

Have you tried turning it off and turning it back on again?

At the comms meeting tomorrow: "How did our statement go over online?" "Well, three million people saw it." "That's great." "Forty people liked it." "Is that good?" "It's actually unprecedentedly bad. But I kind of think that happened because we're, like, wrong? If you let me

After an August hiatus, please welcome back your #CulturalEvoJobs thread. Also, generally: stay tuned as we may be moving our social media to more hospitable locations in the near future! Until then stay awesome my CES friends.

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University London; Research Fellow Salary: Grade R1 from: £39,607 to £43,029 #CulturalEvoJobs jobs.ac.uk/job/DCV796/pos…

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More exciting news! Funded PhD studentships to work with DrLooksLikeAProfKline, Aiyana Koka Willard, Matthew Gervais, and me, investigating the transmission of alternative spiritual beliefs/practices in Glastonbury! 🫶

Ever wondered if farmers do in fact have higher fertility than hunter-gathers? Or, how meaningful population level subsistence typologies are for individual's fertility? If yes, then I have the paper for you! 📢📢 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… PNASNews Centre for Culture and Evolution Population Studies Group, LSHTM

💜UK/EU PhD Studentships (fully funded)💜 Big news - we are hiring funded PhD students as part of our Glastonbury project. Come study how people learn and transmit alternative spiritual beliefs with DrLooksLikeAProfKline, Aiyana Koka Willard, Matthew Gervais, and me! careers.brunel.ac.uk/vacancy/funded…

1/4 🧵 Thrilled to celebrate the recent teaching awards earned by our talented and teaching focused Brunel Psychology staff from Advance HE 🌟👏 @BrunelCCE Centre for Cognitive & Clinical Neuroscience 🧠