This is exciting. #cultevo needs to pay attention to these sort of things.

Wilson's sociobiology 50 years on. #EHBEA #HBE #EvPsych #CultEvo

We seek applicants for a tenure-track appointment at the assistant professor level in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability in the field of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (also referred to as Indigenous and local knowledge, Indigenous science, Native science, and other similar terms) and its relevance to social and environmental sustainability. Topical research areas of interest include, but are not limited to: the role of fire and other aspects of Indigenous land stewardship in the changing climate; establishment and management of natural protected areas; conservation and application of the wild relatives of crops and animals; the ethical and responsible collection and use of socio-ecological data; environmental governance; the role of tribal food and land sovereignty and cultural revitalization for environmental sustainability; and two-eyed seeing, the multicultural approach to understanding the natural world using both Indigenous and Western sciences as independent, but complementary, ways of knowing. The range of expertise and facilities across Stanford University’s main campus, as well as Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma) and Hopkins Marine Station, provide opportunities to develop a research program that bridges Indigenous and Western knowledge systems. Application materials should be submitted online at this LINK. The application deadline is September 30, 2025, 11:00pm PST. Late applications will not be accepted. Applications must include: 1. Cover letter 2. Curriculum vitae 3. Contact information for three reference letter writers 4. Research statement (maximum 2 pages) 5. Teaching statement (maximum 1 page) The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and Stanford University value faculty who will help foster an open and respectful academic environment for colleagues, students, and staff with a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives. Candidates may choose to include as part of their research and teaching statements …

based on factors including, but not limited to, the experience and qualifications of the selected candidate including years since terminal degree, training, and field or discipline; departmental budget availability; internal equity; and external market pay for comparable jobs. For questions regarding this position, please contact Haley Mees at hmees@stanford.edu.

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability seeks assistant professor in the field of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK).

Home dept is open. Happy to talk to anyone interested in ESoS.

#EHBEA #HBES #BioAnth #CultEvo #anthrosky 🌍

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Prehistoric Lifeways: The Bison Pound - CanEHdian Stories The bison pound or surround was one of many ways prehistoric peoples invented to capture the Plains bison in North America. Read about how they were built and operated.

If you're going to #ISHPSSB2025 next week & don't know where to start...

Want to discuss how #cultevo theory can deal with large scale cultural phenomena like bison pounds? Is hi-fidelity imitation enough?

Also happy to discuss other issues, both historical and conceptual, in #cultevo.

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Evolution is coupled with branching across many granularities of life | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Across many scales of life, the rate of evolutionary change is often accelerated at the time when one lineage splits into two. The emergence of novel protein function can be facilitated by gene duplication (neofunctionalization); rapid morphological ...

Douglas et al. shows that up to 99% of evolutionary change occur at branching points across genes, morphology, and language. A major step for punctuated evolution, aligning with our goal of a unified framework. @nilese.bsky.social @andrejpaleo.bsky.social #EvoBio #CultEvo doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Our analysis points to several conclusions. First, the phenomena highlighted by the notion of DA are contexts of selection, and may favor traits beyond high-fidelity copying. Second, high-fidelity copying is neither necessary nor sufficient for explaining these cultural phenomena. Studying these DA phenomena draws attention to the likely importance of cognitive abilities beyond copying (i.e.– imitation or emulation), that support knowledge aggregation processes. They also highlight the importance of population structure, distribution of a population in the environment, and population density, that are also emphasized by other proposals discussed above.

Third, because DAs rely on a variety of population level processes there does not seem to be a general mechanism ensuring a ratchet effect on DAs, unlike the role attributed to high fidelity copying in CCE. Fourth, some games through which children acquire skills are contexts of information acquisition or learning that occurs not only through imitation.

New paper alert:
Finkel & Lamm, Cultural evolution beyond the individual: what human collective knowledge adds to high fidelity copying.

This is the third in the Distributed Adaptation series.

Many thanks to the diligent reviewers! #philbio #cultevo

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Quote: " In sum, leader-directed teaching of opaque cooperative norms would be a mutually beneficial strategy, where the costs incurred by influential teachers are, at least partly, outweighed by the long-term benefits of cultivating cooperation within the group."

Mosaic plot illustrating the relationship between evidence for teaching and non-teaching social learning, based on a binary researcher-coded measure of teaching. "Although instrumental cultural transmission frequently occurs through both teaching and non-teaching social learning, opaque cultural information is predominantly transmitted through teaching, with relatively fewer instances of non-teaching social learning."

With @sheinalew.bsky.social: Teaching is associated with the transmission of opaque culture and leadership across 23 egalitarian hunter-gatherer societies, in @naturecomms.bsky.social

#evolution #culture 🧪 #LeadSciSky #CultEvo

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Can herding shape morals? with economist Nathan Nunn by Our Long Walk What shapes the decisions we make each day, from the seemingly trivial to the transformative? Why do trust, honour or zero-sum thinking persist in some societies but not others? How does a legacy of p...

Excellent podcast with @nathannunn.bsky.social. Highly recommended to anyone interested in cultural evolution. #cultevo
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My paper on Distributed Adaptations in Cultural Evolution was accepted for @ishpssb2025.bsky.social. I’ll also have a poster on objective vs subjective analysis of #socialpolarization. Looking forward to seeing many of you in Porto this summer!
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I am thrilled to have been selected to share our ongoing research on punctuated evolution at this amazing symposium. See you there! #EvoBio #CultEvo @andrejpaleo.bsky.social @blaividiella.bsky.social @nilese.bsky.social @sduran-nebreda.bsky.social

Efferson et al. show cooperation's fragility in repeated interactions, highlighting between-group competition's role in human evolution. Yet, their findings aren't novel nor tied to their continuous investment model—raising questions about claims on cultural group selection. #HBES #evobio #CultEvo

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No extensions this time! Be part of this amazing conference in the vibrant city of Newcastle this April 🌉

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Countdown alert! Just a few days remain to submit your abstract for the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association Conference! Extended deadline Dec 16 www.ehbea2025.com @ehbea.bsky.social @ehbea2025.bsky.social #BioAnth #CultEvo #EvPsych

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The extended deadline to submit your abstracts for #EHBEA2025 is FAST approaching:
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Don’t miss this opportunity to present your work at Newcastle, April 14-17! 🌟

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@ehbea.bsky.social #BioAnth #CultEvo #EvPsych #Evosky

Sheina is here!

#OnsOfUs
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We’ve extended the deadline for abstract submissions to the #EHBEA2025 conference (of course we know you’re still running your analyses😉)! New deadline: 16/12 www.ehbea2025.com
@ehbea.bsky.social @ehbea2025.bsky.social #BioAnth #CultEvo #EvPsych

Nigel Groome Studentship: The Psychology of the ‘Spiritual But Not Religious’ at Oxford Brookes University Discover a PhD Studentship: Nigel Groome Studentship: The Psychology of the ‘Spiritual But Not Religious’ Explore more PhD opportunities and apply today!

Fully funded PhD studentship to study the psychology of the 'spiritual but not religious' at Oxford Brookes University. Please share and/or message me if interested.

Applications due: January 17th, 2025

#religion #spirituality #cultevo #psychology #PhD

If I were to create a feed for cross-cultural psychology, what would be a good short hashtag for ppl to use to post to it? The full term is rather long! CCP is obviously out. CCPsy?

Opinions anyone?

#PsySciSky
#EHBEA
#CultEvo

Research on cultural and technological evolution is thriving at our Institute of Evolutionary Biology, which makes me very happy. It is an exciting time for multidisciplinary approaches to biological evolution! #CultEvo

These by the way are Japanese macaques washing sweet potatoes. youtu.be/H88M3Av9q-w #cultevo

Tomorrow is the beginning of a new semester! I’m really excited to be teaching cultural #evolution again. Now is your chance to suggest a cool or exciting example of cultural evolution that I may have overlooked so that I can talk about it in class! #cultevo #philbio

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 378, No 1872

Apparently the special issue we edited is now open access. I hear it is one of their most read issues, so why not check it out? t.co/BmhEehsjhG #philbio #evolution #cultevo

Image taken from the advertising poster for the MSc in Comparative, Evolutionary and Developmental Psychology at University of St Andrews, showing a chimpanzee and child research.

Prospective MSc students: Our one-year MSc in Comparative, Evolutionary and Developmental Psychology is now open for Sept 2024 entry (University of St Andrews, UK). Deadline: 8 Aug 2024. #EHBEA #CultEvo #psychscisky #devpsy www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/psy...

A colleague is teaching a course on human evolution, and needs to cover ethics. They are looking for a textbook on the topic, but can probably also use peer-review lit or chapters. Any recommendations? #BioAnth #CultEvo

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I've updated the tags for the Evolution and (Human) Behaviour feed. Taking out 'social evolution' should cut irrelevant posts where the 'social' is at the end of the username, and I've added #CultEvo, and all posts from EHBEA and CES official accounts. Anything else needed?

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