This piece synthesizes it all "The evolutionary origins of war and peace" encompassing cumulative culture, shallow and deep roots, multi-level societies, self-domestication, reactive-proactive aggression, coalitionary cooperation for war and peace, etc. Lots to think about
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Fortunately Trump is behind nuclear power. It is about the only instance I agree with that monstrous autocrat.
Good catch but I feel when caught Caraballo will just double down.
Hope the worst of it is passing.
Thanks for posting, Ed. On page two my long-time beef is expressed "the EES in human evolution...has inspired little analysis of biological data and no formal theoretical investigation." and "...we find that it has inspired little engagement with data, method or models".
I suppose the best one can hope for is that the vaccine is reviewed by other nations.
Kurzban is always worth a read even if you have your doubts.
We all need a jolt to make us rethink now and then and students are good at it.
Good point about junior scientists. I find the same with students when they are introduced to new perspectives, concepts, etc. They question what I no longer question,
Surely the questioner is joking!
Can you name three of these "There are multiple national political commentators..."?
See Krebs Dawkins, “Animal Signals: Mind-Reading and Manipulation?” (1984) in Behavioural Ecology: An Evolutionary Approach. Also some stuff on deception in The Selfish Gene what blew me away when I first read it. as in Orgel's Second Rule. "Evolution is cleverer than you are."
Message from a colleague.
Rutgers posted this earlier than I was able to add the priority screening date (January 5), my lab will be hiring a postdoc to query issues related to evolutionary medicine (including behavior) and/or disability.
www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
The issue is not exams so much but completion of written work. Due dates much be assigned and some get extra time which is unfair. In business one needs to be able to keep up with time lines for delivery, reporting, etc. And yes, doing things quickly and expertly is a valuable skill to cultivate.
The point on extensions is that in college these extensions occur in all classes.
When they get their first post-graduation job are they going to tell their boss they need 50% more time to finish a report the boss expects others to do by a standard deadline?
I am pleased that someone is writing about this (also glad I subscribe to The Atlantic). At my university it is something easily attained without merit.
I was almost taken in by a false Pendleton advertisement on Facebook.
A very important study. Many figured that chimp warfare was adaptive. Now we have proof. Lethal displacement of a neighbor doubled fertility and even had a greater impact on survivorship. However, as usual we need more details as other questions emerge.
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
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Scumbags. I saw a fake site for Pendleton wool company and reported it and they did nothing.
Contributed, yes. But just a tiny fraction. My money is on the elites who rig the system in their favor.
One of my former students! Gotta be good!😜
On the efficacy of shamanism from Mike Jay's review of M. Singh's "Shamanism".
Account of negative reviews to researcch
I just finished M. Singh's "Shamanism" and at the very end he notes this incredible anti-intellectual nonsense from our post-modern colleagues.
Right and they have said it so many times without offering any new data or contending with the enormous data that shows males in foraging societies provide for their offspring.
I think this research thread began long ago
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Well worth a close read and includes humans - Biological Reviews - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
An amazing display that I plan to visit one of these days.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/a...
Incredible story. Sort of reminds me of some elements of competition in Fossil Wars between Marsh and Cope. Lack of progress in human evolution is usually explained by a lack of evidence but to that we need to add hiding evidence, coercion of junior researchers, etc.
