1. Santa Barbara Evolutionary Psychology (SBEP) argues that a universal human psychology evolved in Pleistocene Africa. But there has been surprising pushback from evo scholars arguing for recent behavioral evolution in the Holocene. What's the connection w/ race science? 🧵

Cannibalism is fairly common in the Upper Paleolithic but its connection to warfare is uncertain. This study suggests a family "could have been attacked, subdued, & subsequently cannibalized." At 18K BP it would be v. early evidence of warfare. @HSB_Lab

@SpeciesTypical At least at our state school, the vast majority of dollars comes from student tuition and state funding. Even though it's an R1, federal overhead is a drop in the bucket. Here's a thread by someone who's critical of "both sides":

@SpeciesTypical A lot of our F&A at WSU comes back to us, or to our departments to fund department stuff.

@SpeciesTypical Of course, the climate at different schools is different. My experience at WSU has been great, but my former student Casey Roulette was attacked over a routine approval for an HBE course at SDSU, which I blogged about here:

Vaya con Darwin, my friend Remembering Don Symons (1942–2024):

RT @benryanwriter: A lot of people are portraying USAID as some sort of bastion of looney DEI excesses. Let’s take a look at what the sudde…

Apropos of nothing, my grad student Tiffany Alvarez just finished her PhD thesis, 1/3 of which is based on USAID data: tobacco use among >400K women in 34 countries. Main findings: * Higher education -> less tobacco use * Caring for more young children -> less tobacco use

@SashaGusevPosts Of course Grassley understands this perfectly well.

@SpeciesTypical @Evolving_Moloch The problems with any cross-national study include: * small N (~200 nations, data from even fewer) * high spatial autocorrelation (even lower df) * colonies. eg, non-independence of Britain/US/Canada/Australia * can't draw a new sample * ecological fallacy

@BorisBartlog @benmarwick As noted elsewhere in this thread, there are oddities in these data. I'm going to contact the study authors to see what's going on.

@johnfawkes They also include fishing in the "forager" category, I believe.

@DStibbardHawkes Took me a moment

@ThirteenFathers @DanDavisWrites @Hieraaetus @benmarwick There are definitely oddities in these data. I'm going to get in touch with the authors of this study to figure out what's going on.

@KillerKlownFOS @benmarwick Yeah, there are some really odd aspects of these data. I hope to talk to one of the authors of the source paper to figure out what's going on.

@TossitRambles @benmarwick Percent land used. But I might have made a mistake plotting the data. I have to go back and look.