Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias
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Research Fellow @EEG_Cam & @EmmaCambridge 👩🏽🔬| Public Scholars Training Fellow @SAPIENS_org ✍🏽| Book Review Editor @ISHE_society 🌻| PhD from @UZH_Science
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What a lovely post PhD defense present: Our new paper out in
@NatureHumBehav
😍🥳We combine linguistic, cultural and genetic data from Central African hunter-gatherer populations to explore the coevolution of genetic + cultural/linguistic diversity ...
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I could not be happier to see our paper finally out 😊 - Using data on present day hunter-gatherer in populations across the Congo basin, we have created a model able to predict their niche and interconnectivity over the past 120,000 years
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Some news to share: On Friday I defended my thesis and became, officially
#PhDone
!!😱 🥰 Immensely grateful to all my friends, family, collaborators, committee members and of course
@andrea_migliano
and
@DrManica
for their guidance 🌸
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I wrote a little piece for
@SAPIENS_org
, discussing how our views on where our species comes from has changed in recent years🤗. You can read it here:
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How does hunter-gatherer behaviour (and in particular mobility) get reflected in the archaeological record? Preprint up with
@bischrob10
using the ArchMatNet model to look at this question: (the model is also available and open for ppl to explore!) 🤗
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Does anyone know of accounts of groups that have returned to (mostly) hunting and gathering after living from agriculture/horticulture for a (prolonged) period? Archaeological suggestions are very welcome as well!
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New preprint up! We made an ABM to see how hunter-gatherer foraging patterns under different environments would have affected emergent social networks and their ability to transmit information 🌿 (With the amazing
@ketikagarg
#Nico
and
@shadeofbleu
)
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After a couple of long days of traveling, there it is, the Congo River 😍. Fieldwork now feels real.
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Really really excited to share our new preprint 😍 . We compiled a dataset of >1,500 musical instruments and subsistence tools from 11 groups of hunter-gatherers in Central Africa as well as genomic data.
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Thanks so much to the organizers of the ‘Workshop of Phylogenetic Modeling and Human History’ from
@NCCR_Language
and
@MPI_EVA_Leipzig
- I had such a stimulating day yesterday learning about methods (and problems!) on trying to combine the study of linguistic and pop dynamics 😍
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I wrote a little piece for
@SAPIENS_org
on the history of Ancient DNA research and what it can teach us about the workings of science 😊
"Celebrity Status Almost Ruined Ancient DNA Research"
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I wrote an essay for
@aeonmag
😍
Throughout history, many people in many societies have refused to be sedentary - and a few still do today. Why? Have a read ⬇️
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The incredible genetic diversity observed in Africa means it's essential to include populations that might be geographically close but potentially very different genetically when building models of human evolution: Congrats to the authors!
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First little break out of the rainforesr after a few incredible weeks with the Mbendjele. I feel incredibly lucky and inspired 😍
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Almost there!😮💨
Feels crazy to share that I handed in my thesis last week 🎉🎉
Next step in this PhD submission/ wall-climbing experience is organizing the defense once assessments from external examiners are back!
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Out just now - our research briefing explaining the findings from our paper on the role of ancient population interconnectivity on shaping genetic, cultural and linguistic diversity in Central Africa 🥰
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Our
@NatureHumBehav
paper - covered by
@UZH_en
news 🥰
Hunter-gatherer groups in the Congo maintained social networks across vast distances thousands of years before agriculture arrived. The cultural diversity is shown in musical instruments, specialist vocabulary and genetic analyses.
@NCCR_Language
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New paper before the end of the year! 🥳An amazing experience with
@ketikagarg
@NicolasRestrep4
and
@shadeofbleu
🥰We modelled the effect of environmental features on the ability of hunter-gatherer social networks to transmit information efficiently
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Hunter-gatherer cultural networks in Central Africa have ancient origins - Futurity - a summary of our recent paper in
@NatureHumBehav
🥰
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New paper out with the amazing Karen Kramer where we look at how language may structure community social networks throughout the process of market integration (over 20 years!)
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🚨New paper!🚨 "Hunter-gatherer genetics research: Importance and avenues".
Alongside
@iderkx24
we review the tremendous contributions contemporary hunter-gatherer populations to genetics research and provide some ideas of what we can do better 🥰
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Day 50 in Congo. Another moment to take a breath and digest the last few weeks before heading back into the forest. This time, the view: Makao, where we arrived after 8h on a pirogue 😬
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Every time I read about ants, I have more questions about what it means to be human: 🙀
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The actual paper from the foraging study comparing individuals showing symptoms of ADHD against those not showing them is very neat! (also nice framing within optimal foraging theory) ☺️
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So our paper looking at predictors of rates of language diversification is out (and free!):
@PLOSONE
: Geographical and social isolation drive the evolution of Austronesian languages
Thanks a lot to
@gjesfjeld
and Lucio Vinicius for doing this with me 🙃
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I just saw an email that I got on of the
@SAPIENS_org
Public Scholars Training Fellowships and I'm so so so happy 😍😍🥳🥳 - I can't wait to learn to tell better stories, and stay tuned for all the PopSci to come!
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I love everything about this thread
According to biologists, the function of zebras' stripes is to ward off insects. Based on that idea, a team of scientists painted zebra stripes on cows. This reduced the number of biting flies on the cows by more than 50%. Applied evolutionary biology!
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Really excited to share this: Population inter-connectivity over the past 120,000 years explains distribution and diversity of Central African hunter-gatherers … with
@andrea_migliano
@DrManica
@lane_atmore
#LucioVinicius
,
#JesusOlivero
&
#KarenLupo
🥳
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Really elegant (as always) and insightful paper by Rob Foley and
@MartMLahr
exploring potential processes leading to differences in the evolutionary trajectories of African hominins and apes.
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My attempt at making something that looks like a happy birthday cake for the one and only
#Darwin
😬🎉
#DarwinDay
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Another cool paper - combining archaeology, climate and genetics to try to infer causes of the expansion of Homo sapiens to northern latitudes!
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New paper out today! How do caregivers make decisions about which language to use with their children when communities start becoming more and more market integrated?
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What a cool preprint by
@MikLeonardi
& others on the ecological niche of Acheulean technology in Europe: 😍
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Congrats to
@abbeyepage
,
@RebeccaSear
& coauthors on a great paper illustrating nuances in the relationship between subsistence strategies and reproductive behaviour!
"Women’s subsistence strategies predict fertility across cultures, but context matters"
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🚨🚨New preprint up!! 🚨🚨"Hunter-gatherer genetics research: Importance and avenues". With my favourite human
@iderkx24
we review important insights from genetics research including hunter-gatherer populations and discuss how we can do better 😊
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After over a year of "livingrooming",
#InezDerkx
and I are super thrilled to have received a grant from
@TheLeakeyFndtn
to fund our fieldwork in Congo for our project "Socioecology of hunter-gatherer social structures and implications for cumulative culture" 🥳🥳🥳
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I had a really interesting discussion on the
@OnHumansPod
on hunter-gatherers, what a mobile life might mean to them, and on old notions of progress and development:
Did We Evolve To Live In Small Groups? ~ Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias -
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Great birthday news! A Nobel Prize for human evolutionary research 🥳🥳🥳🥳 Congratulations to him and all his team at
@MPI_EVA_Leipzig
and thanks for how you’ve expanded our toolkit to understand our origins!
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If you have any suggestions for books to review (or want to review any books), please get in touch! 🤩
We’re excited to welcome our new Book Review Editor, Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias! 🎉 A huge thank you to Prof. Gayle Brewer for her outstanding work as our outgoing editor—we are truly grateful for your contributions! 📚
#ISHE
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Catching up on reading after fieldwork and definitely the paper by
@DrEleanorScerri
and
@MW_hominin
summing up a what we know about the evolution of Homo sapiens behavior is great!
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As my PhD is coming to an end, I finally jumped on the boat and started making a website...🫣
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Finally out our piece on how people (strategically) adapt their use language as a marker of cultural identity following socioeconomic changes and increasing bilingualism 😊
📌
#NewArticle
by Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias (
@padillaccc
), Robert A. Foley and Laura A. Shneidman:
'Language as a marker of ethnic identity among the Yucatec Maya'
#Essentialism
#developmentalplasticity
#culturalmarkers
#language
#Mexico
#evolution
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My first paper just went online💃A bit of an unexpected finding that came about when looking at the effect of changing socio-economic landscapes on linguistic behaviour for my Masters. Thanks a lot to Rob Foley and Laura Shneidman, you’re both great😊
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Nice paper on the coevolution of endurance running and persistence hunting drawing from ethnographic data!
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I’ll be giving a talk at the
@CDAL
Seminar Series at
@UCamArchaeology
on the 5th of Feb 🤩. I’ll mainly discuss work done with
@palaeolicious
and Prof Matt Grove on Central African archaeology! Come by if you you’re interested in the ecological drivers of cultural dynamics 🤗
Are you ready for the next term!? Come join us at
@CDAL
Seminar Series
@UCamArchaeology
. Here the lent term calendar with our amazing guests✨️
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I’m late to watching this but what a lovely journey not only on what we know about H.sapiens evolution but on how to generate and question hypotheses.
My Huxley lecture, November 2023 Mostly out of Africa
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REALLY REALLY excited after having had my very first meeting with
@kensycoop
as the new assistant producer of
@ManyMindsPod
😊 Thanks a lot for welcoming me to the team!
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Making our way north into the forest. The whole journey is absolutely beautiful 😍. So before I lose signal - another picture.
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Hiking in France post PhD, and reading about Glynn Isaac’s reflections on science and storytelling - and couldn’t agree more on his throughts on intertwining them 😍
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"Go ahead, add a class, add a hobby. You have my permission. Be well-rounded, yes, that well-rounded"
Crazy that
@ScienceMagazine
tells us that the radical act of living or having hobbies is OK. OK? The opposite is what needs questioning.
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My very first episode as Assistant Producer - and a great one!
New episode!!📣📣
A conversation w/
@Anthrofuentes
about his wide-ranging research on monkeys, monogamy, masculinity, creativity, belief, race, Darwin, the human niche, and the anthropological perspective. Enjoy!
Listen:
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If you work with paleoclimatic reconstructions - check out this new preprint by
@lucytimbrell96
,
@EEG_Cam
and others looking at the congruence of climatic reconstructions and proxy data at different resolutions!
What is the optimal model resolution for capturing climatic conditions in the past? 🤔
In our preprint in
@EGU_CP
, we investigate the coherence between climatic time series from models and proxy reconstructions across the Northern Hemisphere 👇🏼
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New preprint up with
@bischrob10
and
@cgravelm
and looking at the impact of missing data on our ability to build social networks with archaeological data using ArchMatNet (our now publicly available agent-based model) 🤸🏽♂️
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Actually a lovely review of how ancient genomics has contributed to our understanding of key differences between hunter-gatherer populations from our species and those from other species! 😍 (family structure, mobility, Ne)
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A couple of months ago, I had a little conversation about our ArchMatNet agent-based model and how we can use it to determine the relationship between different social and mobility behaviours and archaeological site formation 😊
This episode of 'Ten-Minute Dialogues: Computational Models' features Dr. Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias (
@padillaccc
) on the 'ArchMatNet' model. Explore how this model unravels the complexities of ancient social networks through artifact stylistic similarities.
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IT'S OUT!! 🥰>4 years ago,
@bischrob10
,
@cgravelm
and I set out to investigate whether social networks built from archaeological remains captured the same phenomena as those built from relational/mobility data - here, we describe what we did👇
@thePeerJ
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Wonderful talk by
@JakeFunkhouser
last night at
@pintofscienceCH
on chimpanzee culture - and some tips to help conserve it 🫶
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Leaving Congo this evening with blue hair and a blue feeling to end what has been the most incredible journey I’ve ever undertaken. I’m immensely thankful to everyone that made this possible (esp,
@LgetaU
and
@andrea_migliano
) - until the next time 👋🏼
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What a neat study of cultural evolution!
New preprint:
’A global cross-cultural analysis of string figures reveals evidence of deep transmission and innovation’
String figures have been made by cultures globally. We develop a new mathematical methodology, allowing cross-cultural comparisons.
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We need better and more PopSci by scientists | Science - absolutely! But we also need accessible training (and funding) to be able to do this (esp. in languages other than English)
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🚨🚨New paper!!🚨🚨 Part of the amazing project we have been working on in Yucatán looking at the factors predicting differences in children’s early social experiences within and across cultures 😊
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Music Helped Connect Hunter-Gatherer Groups in Central Africa | Discover Magazine
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As someone that often focuses on ecological drivers of evolutionary dynamics (me) - this is an important paper pointing at the need to consider interspecific competition too!😊
Interspecific competition played an important, previously ignored, and unusual role in hominin speciation and extinction - read my latest paper in
@NatureEcoEvo
here:
@CamZoology
@UCamArchaeology
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My essay on human origins has been published by
@GeneticLiteracy
! You can read it here:
Rethinking humanity’s origin story: Did all modern humans evolve from East Africa?
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Happening today! (Follow the QR for a Zoom link 😊)
Next Monday our new guest
@padillaccc
with an amazing talk about Hunter-Gatherers in Central Africa Prehistory...want to know more then join
#CDAL
@UCamArchaeology
shared with PalMeso.
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Another cool paper on interspecific competition across primates by
@lolvanhol
, H.D. McKay,
@pimientoc
and
@KathelijneKoops
😍
🌟Hot off the press! 🌟 Our new, MULTIDIMENSIONAL PRIMATE NICHE LANDSCAPE shows the role of competition in primate lives and evolution.
Read it here in
@CommsBio
:
With
@KathelijneKoops
and
@pimientoc
;
@CamBioanth
@UCamArchaeology
Amazing pic by
@Abana1
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I'm giving an online talk on how the ways we use and reason about language adapt to changing environments and the implications this may have both for understanding the evolution of linguistic diversity as well as its fate - follow
@LivUni_EvoAnth
for details on how to join 😊
We're very pleased to release the preliminary schedule for our webinar programme for the Autumn term!
These webinars are openly accessible however registration is required (more details to come soon!)
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New episode of
@ManyMindsPod
. What’s a biggest threat to medicinal plant knowledge, the loss of linguistic diversity or the loss of biodiversity? Are they related?
New episode!!📣📣
A conversation w/
@R_CamaraLeret
& J. Bascompte about our world's vast but fragile medicinal knowledge.
Indigenous peoples have been stewarding and studying plants for millennia. How can we best protect what they've learned?
Listen:
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I’m using some of these data for my PhD research and it is great news that this amazing resource is now out and available for everyone! Thanks a lot!
#NewPaper
our
#paleoclimate
and
#paleovegetation
simulations for the last 120,000 years are finally out
@ScientificData
! Congratulations to
@mkrapp3000
@RobertMBeyer
and
@DrManica
for this huge effort!
#climate
#vegetation
#LatePleistocene
#Holocene
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Sad to be leaving the wonderful
@UZH_Science
but I couldn’t be more excited for the next step in this adventure at
@EEG_Cam
&
@EmmaCambridge
and to delve even more into researching mobility, genetics and all sorts of interesting evolutionary questions 😍
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Tag along for some discussion on how humans adapt to changing environments through the way in which they use and think about languages!
Next Thursday (12/11) at 1-2pm UK time, we will host Cecilia Padilla
@padillaccc
, of the University of Zurich
@UZH_Science
, for our next EvoAnth webinar!
To register:
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Definitely
@desilva_jerry
is an incredibly engaging person - I’m so glad we got to interview him at
@ManyMindsPod
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Thank you so so much
@palaeolicious
and Matt - I’ve learnt a lot whilst doing this together 🤗
Fantastic to see our new paper led by
@padillaccc
with Prof Matt Grove
@LivAncWorlds
published in QSR which provides a comprehensive synthesis and quantitative analyses of dated Central African forager stone tool assemblages
@MPI_GEA
@PanEvLab
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Really proud of this and really grateful to
@aeonmag
for giving me the chance to write it 🥰
‘Movement was never just a means of finding food, but of finding one another across entire continents.’ The hunter-gatherers of the 21st century who live on the move.
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You can now submit papers for
@CAA2024AKL
🥳
Aaaaand especially have a look at the session
@lucytimbrell96
and I are putting together on “Advances in modeling the interplay between ecology and demography as drivers of cultural evolution”.
Abstract here:
Please submit your papers, workshops, and poster abstracts on any (loosely) applicable session !
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@NatureHumBehav
...we find that a deep history of population interconnectivity is responsible for the distribution of genetic & musical instrument diversity, but not for that of subsistence tools, which is better predicted by local ecologies (same as in: )...
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Super nice talk by
@err_ring
looking for causality in the relationship between subsistence and social organization - excited to have a look at the methods 🤓
#EHBEA2021
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Out of the 7 people this year that have won Nobel Prizes in any of the sciences (Physics, Chemistry & Physiology + Medicine), NONE have been women. Please save your saliva next time you're about talk to me about equal opportunities and meritocracy. Thanks.
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Incredibly insightful talk by
@heidiColleran
in
#CROSSDEM2021
on how we need better methods to characterise the role of culture in shaping diversity in demographic patterns across time and space!
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Thanks
@lucytimbrell96
and
@LivUni_EvoAnth
for inviting me today and to all those that tagged along - I really enjoyed it! For anyone interested in how linguistic diversity responds to socio-ecological changes, here's a link to the recorded talk: 🙃
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Amazing first day at
#wpsg2022
- after many hours of Population Genetics, the silence of Český Krumlov is magical 🥰
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Our new episode is *so* cool! How does our brain structure information - and why?
New episode!! 📣📣
A chat w/
@gothemind
about her new book, 'Brainscapes.'
Your brain—like the brains of many other creatures—is stuffed full of maps. Why? How do these brain maps support perception and imagination? And why are they so warped?
Listen:
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The amazing
@iderkx24
talking about potential trade-offs between information and disease transmission in hunter-gatherer social structures at the
#FrenchSocietyEHS
meeting 🥳
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More interesting work exploring cultural evolutionary processes from archaeological data 😊
🚨Publication Alert🚨
Very glad to see this paper where
@Anna_Bloxam
, Chris Stevens, Marc Vander Linden, and I explored new approaches for statistically modelling diffusion of innovation (DOI) curves in archaeology using 14C dates:
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I received a very professional review from someone who clearly could not be bothered to go over (or did not want to admit their lack of expertise on), yes, a modelling paper
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Thanks a lot for giving me the chance to write this piece, it was a great journey 😊
NEW from
#SAPIENS
New evidence is prompting researchers to rethink Homo sapiens’ origin story—and what it means to be human.
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Really cool study on the role of woman’s foraging networks for cultural learning!
🌷New paper
@ScienceAdvances
🌷
Using 230 days of focal-follow data in a BaYaka community in Congo, we find that women’s foraging networks provide crucial opportunities for children to learn subsistence skills
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@NatureHumBehav
...on top of it, we find that despite the fact that today's Central African hg speak languages borrowed from farmers, the words used to designate those musical instruments can be traced back to their common linguistic history (independent of farmers)...
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I’m really excited to share the conversation we had with one of the people that got me intrigued about what is it that makes us human 😍
Just a casual chat with a legendary scientist...
In which we discuss Lev Vygotsky; the 3 major methods of developmental psych; reasons, roles, norms, objectivity, agency; joint attention and demonstratives; cooperative hunting; what it's like to be a chimpanzee; & a lot else.
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I’m having a slow summer but just had the time to listen to
@razibkhan
’s Unsupervised Learning episode with
@DrDinoDNA
and I can’t wait to read the book! Really cool journey on the lessons aDNA has revealed about how the science “world” works!
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Long train ride this am, so finally had time to listen to
@CesarFortesLim
’s interview for
@razibkhan
’s Unsupervised Learning and can only recommend - not only a v interesting story of the Bantu but also the description of how to do pop gen analyses!
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So happy that my intro to bio anth companion made it.
Congratulations Dr 😘
The Dr will see you now.
Thank you so much to my examiners
@fiona_jordan
and
@AlexAlvergne
for a great discussion. And of course to
@tavitonst
, without whom I wouldn’t be standing here, 8 years on from my first intro to bio anth course.
#vivalaviva
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This episode, as well as the hypothesis that
@andreamatranga
puts forward on the role of changing seasonality on the origins of argriculture are fascinating. Have a listen!
Our ancestors were hunters and gatherers. Suddenly, humans around the world started to abandon this lifestyle. Why? We might finally have the answer, thanks to
@andreamatranga
. (Spoiler: climate change plays a role — but not the role we once thought...)👉
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