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'Evolution Evolving. The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity', by Kevin Lala, Tobias Uller, Nathalie Feiner, Marcus Feldman and Scott Gilbert, is now available @PrincetonUPress Find out more at evolutionevolving.org
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'Evolution Evolving. The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity', by Kevin Lala, Tobias Uller, Nathalie Feiner, Marcus Feldman and Scott Gilbert, is now available @PrincetonUPress Find out more at evolutionevolving.org
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'Evolution Evolving. The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity', by Kevin Lala, Tobias Uller, Nathalie Feiner, Marcus Feldman and Scott Gilbert, is now available @PrincetonUPress Find out more at evolutionevolving.org
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Scientists should stop arguing about whether science is political and get on with defending science against increasingly powerful attacks on it, which, yes, means scientists should be political advocates 👇🔥
Agustín Fuentes@Anthrofuentes22 Nov 2024
"Being purely reactive to political attacks (only playing defense) or assuming an artificial air of neutrality and seeking to “stay on the sidelines” are both ethically problematic and practically detrimental." science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…

Scientists as political advocates

Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent US presidential election of a person and platform with anti-science bias exemplifies this. The study of climate processes and patterns...

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I had a wonderful meeting this morning with the extraordinary biological anthropologist, author and TV presenter @theAliceRoberts. Very pleased that Alice has agreed to Chair the Advisory Committee for our initiative “Transforming Human Origins Research”!
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'Evolution Evolving. The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity', by Kevin Lala, Tobias Uller, Nathalie Feiner, Marcus Feldman and Scott Gilbert, is now available @PrincetonUPress Find out more at evolutionevolving.org
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Fifty years after the discovery of Lucy, it’s time to ‘decolonise paleoanthropology’ says leading Ethiopian fossil expert – podcast theconversation.com/fifty-ye… via @ConversationUK
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EES Update retweeted
Iain Couzin@icouzin21 Nov 2024
Delighted and honored to have been selected for the 2024 @voxdotcom #FuturePerfect50 list! vox.com/future-perfect/38644… @maxplanckpress @UniKonstanz @CBehav @MPI_animalbehav
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Loss of Earth’s old, wise, and large animals | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…

Loss of Earth’s old, wise, and large animals

Earth’s old animals are in decline. Despite this, emerging research is revealing the vital contributions of older individuals to cultural transmission, population dynamics, and ecosystem processes...

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New study shows how niche construction affects the evolution of remembering and forgetting. Niche construction is found to reduce or stabilize environmental volatility when learned environmental resources can be monopolized. In other conditions niche destructors evolve. doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.16… 📷
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great line from a great article: "Indeed, different incarnations of eugenic ideologies keep appearing." pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…

Genes, culture, and scientific racism | PNAS

Quantitative studies of cultural evolution and gene-culture coevolution (henceforth “CE” and “GCC”) emerged in the 1970s, in the aftermath of the “...

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Excellent new paper which clearly explains how “a gene-culture coevolution perspective can refute reductionist & determinist claims while providing an inclusive multidisciplinary framework to interpret human variation” Genes, culture & scientific racism pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…

Genes, culture, and scientific racism | PNAS

Quantitative studies of cultural evolution and gene-culture coevolution (henceforth “CE” and “GCC”) emerged in the 1970s, in the aftermath of the “...

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In this article (shorturl.at/PmTT0) University of St Andrews Professor Kevin N. Lala explores what evolutionary biology tells us about the impact of culture on human behavior, and what that means for efforts to lead complex organizations more effectively. "Human minds were not just built for culture, they were built by culture," Lala writes. "For our species, cultural solutions dominate because culture is the component of our evolutionary adaptability that functions to cope with rapidly changing features of the environment." For more from Kevin Lala, you can order his just-published book, "Evolution Evolving: The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity," here: evolutionevolving.org/
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'Evolution Evolving. The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity', by Kevin Lala, Tobias Uller, Nathalie Feiner, Marcus Feldman and Scott Gilbert, is now available. @PrincetonUPress Find out more at evolutionevolving.org
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'Evolution Evolving. The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity', by Kevin Lala, Tobias Uller, Nathalie Feiner, Marcus Feldman and Scott Gilbert, is now available. @PrincetonUPress Find out more at evolutionevolving.org
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'Evolution Evolving. The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity', by Kevin Lala, Tobias Uller, Nathalie Feiner, Marcus Feldman and Scott Gilbert, is now available. @PrincetonUPress Find out more at evolutionevolving.org
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.@RachelAHarrison explores a #PLOSBiology study in birds by @evogom &co suggesting that changes in the physical environment, rather than the social environment, are key in prompting #SocialLearning by immigrants. Primer: plos.io/3USkKw4 Paper: plos.io/3CpSzOG
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“the problem turned out to be not that heritability was imaginary, but rather that it was misinterpreted as supporting a hereditarian model of human behavioral differences, when in fact it does not”
Sasha Gusev
@SashaGusevPosts16 Nov 2024
I wrote about Eric Turkheimer's recent book on "the nature-nurture debate", which should be of interest to people thinking not just about the genetics of behavior but complex traits more broadly. A short 🧵:
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