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New paper led by Eva Brandl of BirthRites MPI-EVA Leipzig. A deep dive into ethnography of #brideprice in Melanesia to understand its costs and benefits. Broader point: we need to draw on *arguments* in ethnography for hypothesis design, not just treat sources as datapoints

How to balance individual and social information in collective search?⚖️ In our new model (PLOS Comp Biol), agents use only their vision👁and a 2-neuron nervous system🧠to make adaptive foraging decisions. Paper: doi.org/10.1371/journa… Videos: av.tib.eu/series/1546/vi… 🧵...

Cross-cousin marriage among Tsimane forager–horticulturalists during demographic transition and market integration | Evolutionary Human Sciences - bit.ly/4audo77 By Arianna Dalzero, Bret A. Beheim, Dieter Lukas et al #AcademicTwitter #Anthropology #Demography #Kinship

New review paper on Fertility Transitions for The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution | OUP led by ⁦⁦Yi-Ta Lu⁩ of ⁦BirthRites⁩ ⁦MPI-EVA Leipzig⁩ academic.oup.com/HTTPHandlers/S…

Honored that our (Augusto Dalla Ragione & Cody Ross) paper won this year’s Margo Wilson award (& sad to have missed this year’s HBES)!

I am very grateful to be attending the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences! It is a great opportunity to network, present my PhD project and receive valuable feedback from such an interdisciplinary audience ✨ TSE IAST BirthRites MPI-EVA Leipzig

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 😊

Congrats Dr ⁦Arianna Dalzero⁩ ! You earned the hat, and the degree!

Hace poquito se estrenó este documental sobre el niño de El Plomo 🏔️ y han salido varias notas sobre algunos de los análisis, incluidos los genéticos 🧬 Aclaración: la evidencia genética NO sugiere que el niño sea originario de la zona del Titicaca elpais.com/chile/2024-07-…

Ok who knows where I can find historical / conceptual critiques of the development of game theory as the product of 1950s cultural values and sociology?

Kicking off #ISEMPH2024 with a talk from Jane Buikstra about Paleopathology, health, and how to move to a unified vision on the study of diseases throughout time ISEMPH

Such cool research on the role of allomothering in children development, maternal well-being, and fertility intentions during COVID-19 pandemic 🤓🤩😷#ISEMPH2024 Dr Sarah Myers Emily H Emmott ISEMPH BirthRites

Next up is Pablo J. Varas Enríquez on how fertility and life history tactics vary by SES in #Chile. As elsewhere, Chilean women of higher SES have fewer kids. Do they face different tradeoffs? #ISEMPH2024 ISEMPH #EvMed

Sad to miss out on Cultural Evolution Society #CES2024 but delighted to have been able to give the opening plenary at British Society for Population Studies - BSPS #bsps2024 today - thank you to the organisers for inviting me and Dr Nitzan Peri-Rotem for chaperoning!

Thank you Durham Cultural Evolution Research Centre for letting me present my work at #CES2024Durham! So many great talks and workshops, inspiring people and conversations! See you soon 😇 Cultural Evolution Society