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I humbly did some maths and graphs on this preprint from Alberto Acerbi, which has a clear and important message, I believe. Also he's a great writer! Also features this gorgeous saddle-node bifurcation👇

Cognitive fossils: using cultural artifacts to reconstruct psychological changes throughout history Review by Nicolas Baumard, Lou Safra, Mauricio Martins, & Coralie Chevallier Mauricio JD Martins, MD PhD Coralie Chevallier Free access until December 28: authors.elsevier.com/a/1i3644sIRvPN…

HBES mourns the death of one of its founders, John Tooby (1952-2023), on Fri Nov 10th. John was co-director of the UCSB Center for Evolutionary Psychology with Leda Cosmides, and was HBES President (1999-2001). He had an enormous impact on the field & will be sorely missed.

In episode 223, I interview Dr. Pascal Boyer (Pascal Boyer) about his book, Minds Make Societies. #Anthropology #psychology #CognitiveScience #humanevolution #Science Full interview: youtu.be/4i5S4Lnm1qs

Cumulative culture, archaeology, skill, evolution of cognition. Sterelny & Hiscock in *Current Anthropology*: expertise isn't copying; social scaffolding of skill is complex! Responses Valentine Roux, Olivier Morin, Steven Kuhn, @DoctorSpurt, Claudio Tennie, me journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10…

Zipf’s law of abbreviation explained by a simple cultural evolutionary model: - no pressure for efficiency - general pressure for brevity applying to all words - explains the weak correlation between frequency and brevity - explains heteroskedasticity osf.io/preprints/psya…

It's a privilege to engage with an expert like Joe Henrich on a question as important and foundational as the role of culture in perception. But Dorsa Amir and I think this thread gets several key details wrong, both bigger-picture and finer-grained. Here's how (🧵):