Reminds me of a remarkable fossil that was on display in Guyot Hall at Princeton while I was a postdoc. A great example of a behavior that was fossilized

Yawning and Its Temperature-Dependent Modulation in Leopard Geckos "These results align with previous studies conducted on endothermic animals, suggesting the conservation of primitive functions of yawning across vertebrate species." doi.org/10.2108/zs2301…

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A great opportunity

📢 PhD position in human, ape, or dog cognition Johns Hopkins University - please RT! We study how animals think, & what makes the human mind unique Deadline: Dec 1 Learn more here: social-cognitive-origins.com And here: social-cognitive-origins.com/join-our-team.… And in QT'd thread

I want to apologize to those people I called old at 40 when I was 33.

Reminder that applications are due December 1 to undertake a PhD with me studying animal minds!

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Had a lot of fun talking with Adriana Diaz and Tony Dokoupil about why we yawn on CBS Mornings youtube.com/watch?v=3Ub2Bq…

Excited to share that our Behav. Brain. Sci. target article — "Children as agents of cultural adaptation" — is online & open for commentary! In it, sheina lew-levy & I argue that children's peer cultures play an important & understudied role in cultural adaptation. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Check out the latest issue of IFLScience, featuring articles on why we enjoy watching fire, how connecting with plants improves our health, and why yawning is contagious curious.iflscience.com/issue-30/full-…

🚨 Paper(s) Alert 🚨 The commentaries and reply for my BBS piece are online now. Read my reply to find out what Mithen got wrong about Elephant-hunting; who ate the chocolates; and why we should revise our null model of Hominin Cognition! cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Contagious urination in chimpanzees npr.org/2025/01/22/nx-…

Submit your abstract to NEEPS 2025! They'll just let anyone chair these days... forms.gle/6dTVYme478sh5C…

Sports, team games, and physical skill competitions appear to be a human universal and may have been prevalent throughout the hominin lineage. New @BBS commentary with Omar Tonsi Eldakar on an excellent target article by Duncan Stibbard Hawkes bit.ly/3EtRKp6

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I am hiring a PhD student to study the relation between disgust and moral cognition. Master's degree required. A background in evolutionary psychology is a big plus. Please circulate! workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/phd-…