New paper out from the Evolutionary Demography of Religion team in Royal Society Publishing ! This one summarizes lessons from building and running our cross-cultural mixed-methods project. We hope it will be helpful to others! 🔗 find the OA paper here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… 👇 highlight thread below

Three year lecturer/senior lecturer position at Otago. Expertise in science of religion, evolutionary approaches, CSR, etc. Equivalent to Assistant/Associate in North America. Great colleagues. Apply here: otago.taleo.net/careersection/…

New paper from our Evolutionary Demography of Religion project, led by Dr Anushé Hassan Nuclearization of maternal support networks in the UK and the US during the COVID-19 pandemic: Impact on women's financial and emotional wellbeing sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

As they launch a new round of data collection, today John H. Shaver and Laure Spake 🏔️ presented findings from the first round of data collection to participants from four of the villages we work with.

Does polygyny inevitably lock many man out of the marriage market? It's a widespread belief that "if one man marries 2 wives, another must go without a wife". But it's wrong. Our preprint shows the importance of demography to understanding marriage markets & their consequences👇

Our (with Oskar Burger and Ron Lee) edited volume Human Evolutionary Demography is now published by Open Book Publishers 🎉 32 chapters completely free to read, including an impressive line-up of researchers working in this area 😊

"It matters that Harris proudly ... sees herself as both African American and South Indian. As an anthropologist who studies inequality, I see her self-identification as a repudiation of the one-drop rule and the unjust racial hierarchy it represents." loom.ly/Prft9_Q

In a new paper led by Losia Lagisz, we find that 222 “Best Paper” awards across 27 subject areas lack transparency, inclusivity, and support for Open Science. Of particular concern, concepts that align with Open Science were almost absent from assessment criteria ☹️

Write up about our new article led by Laure Spake 🏔️ Article here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Check out a quick summary of our paper on religiosity and support to mothers in the US and the UK. The paper is from the Evolutionary Demography of Religion team, and is also out now in E&HB

Come join us in Anthropology at Baylor!

Check out our (Evolutionary Demography of Religion) new paper simulating fitness outcomes for alloparenting! Allocare with different cost structures is adaptive under different ecological conditions. Free to read/download here for 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jbEK3tz496Y…

New project study (the first of our primary data articles!!) examines the role of maternal religion on allopatenal support among Gambia mothers. In AJHB. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj…

Post about what our recent work suggests for theories that predict religion helps mothers to receive broad support with children, vs. those that envision religion as fe/male mating strategies. evolutionarydemographyofreligion.org/religion-in-th…

📢 Job alert! Come join LSE Methodology! We're a friendly interdisciplinary dept, looking for a new colleague with expertise in qualitative research methods. (No need to be a 'methodologist' - just someone who cares about doing careful, considered work). Feel free to reach out!

When are individuals more likely to care for others' offspring - under scarcity or abundance? Find out in Elic Weitzel & colleagues new HBES blog post about alloparenting: hbes.com/time-or-resour… Or read the original EHB article here: doi.org/10.1016/j.evol…

Had a lot of fun talking with Christopher Lynn and Anahí

New paper! The "paradox" of happiness despite declining health & social losses is no paradox at all! (in rural groups) U-shaped happiness curve applies to high-income countries w/ social safety nets, formal retirement and non-subsistence economy. (1/x) tinyurl.com/37wzkc8n

"Sharpening causal reasoning in applied ethnographic research," a schematic of our approach, and a preprint version researchgate.net/publication/38…

Causal Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) are like chainsaws: used well, they slice through heavy tasks; used poorly, and you might lose a limb. Here's the first of four tutorials in Evolutionary Human Sciences for human scientists new to causal inference: cambridge.org/core/journals/… Tips: -