20th-century anthropologists called romantic love a Western invention – our new paper, with data from 9 non-WEIRD societies (N = 937), finds high levels of passion, intimacy & commitment everywhere, adding evidence for the universality of love hypothesis. Link to the pdf below!

Thankfully, the Greek reporter story is wrong. St. Catherine's is not being seized Egyptian gvt: sis.gov.eg/Story/208979/M… President: facebook.com/story.php?stor… Text of ruling: newsprime.gr/sina-den-ginet… Deleted Tweet. Apologies for bad info. Thanks Bereket | በረኸት for pointing it out.

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Prompt: Analyze with logic

Aristotle and Theophrastus in Mytilene, 345BC (videos: Google; image: OpenAI). The future will be quite interesting... πῶς ἣ σήπια σώζεται, ὦ Θεόφραστε μέλανα ῥίπτει, ὦ Ἀριστότελες, καὶ ἀφανίζεται φύσει γὰρ πρὸς σωτηρίαν μηχανᾶται

The human mind may draw arbitrary and subjective ellipses over a collection of individuals. Below, I show an unsupervised model-based clustering of 1007 West Eurasians. k=14 was chosen (k=1:20 allowed), showing how arbitrary "European"/"Aryan" clusters (as in the quoted post) are

"The Ecumenical Patriarchate expressed deep sorrow and surprise upon learning that the competent Egyptian court called into question the longstanding ownership status of the historic Holy Monastery of Sinai." …-ecumenical-patriarchate.visitlink.me/-dxWGm

Here are the cluster assignments for k=2 to k=16. I use the lower right panel to show the BIC (maximized at k=14 as in the quoted post at the 12-16 plateau). Notice how "European" vs. "non-European", so beloved by some, has an atrociously low BIC: a gross oversimplification.

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

nature.com/articles/s4158…