Excellent history of evol anthropology as it relates to human behavior and culture. The take home point is that both human behavioral ecology and evolutionary psychology need to account for culture per se more effectively and intergratively. Open access: pnas.org/doi/epub/10.10…

We could use more of these studies from sociologists who aren't afraid of evolutionary theory: sociologicalscience.com/articles-v10-3…

I know that you-all occasionally get this academic junk but the subject line in the email is so - I really don't know what to say "Great News! You are Highly Invited for Servicing as a Editor in Chief"

Today's re-reading interspersed with a lovely photo of the Gunwinggu from Jon Altman's important work. They no doubt feasted for days and called in friends and relatives to join in.

"the narrow bandwidth of ideas that Western academics often draw upon when formulating hypotheses for socio-cultural phenomena in other times and places" inquisitivemag.org/articles/theme…

Although Cavalli-Sforza died 2018 at the age of 96, here is a retrospective piece on his truly innovative contributions to the story of human evolution in joining archaeology & other human sciences with population genetics. Met him when I worked at NSF repository.cam.ac.uk/items/b70f0d...

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Whoever alerted me to this response by Azar Gat to Michael Mann's "On War", THANKS. The takedown was systematic and exposes a certain blindness in sociology. networks.h-net.org/group/discussi…

Weird & irrelevant reference padding

Johnny Guitar I And I thought I knew Clapton. Just discovered this gem. youtu.be/azdyupy7Zgo?si… via YouTube

Bonobo females target males in 85% of their coalitions and that females occupy higher ranks compared to males when they form more frequent coalitions. This indicates that female coalition formation is a behavioral tool for females to gain power over males. nature.com/articles/s4200…

Worth a careful read "Close encounters of the friendly kind: pacific between‐group interactions in primates - Grueter - Biological Reviews - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/br…

I just finished M. Singh's "Shamanism" and at the very end he notes this incredible anti-intellectual nonsense from our post-modern colleagues.

I wish we had followed this more diligently with our kids even though we sent them to college with a tool box and sewing kit. Some of my college roommates did not know how to cook, use a washer and dryer, etc. Excellent piece for new parents: theatlantic.com/family/archive…

/2 more on Elsevier. One would think given their huge profit margins of more than 30% they would spend enough money to deal with access problems. Most internet based companies fix such problems in less than a day

These be dangerous times for accurate science and history as guides to rational policy. The latest is Trump's demand that the Smithsonian distort history to comport with his beliefs even though he has no authority to make or enforce a review: oah.org/2025/08/14/sta…