Our failure to reproduce Anderson et al (2023), The Myth of Man the Hunter, an effort led by Vivek V. Venkataraman, is now published: authors.elsevier.com/c/1j2qf3tz496Y…

Our article on women and hunting is now in press and online. A free view for the next 50 days.
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Our paper on the women's hunting debate has finally been published in E&HB

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Our point is simple: women sometimes hunt in foraging societies, but gendered divisions of labor still exist.

'Game Theory in Cultural Evolution' by Joe Henrich scholar.harvard.edu/files/henrich/…

“Genetic evolution is shaping us to be cultural learners, but then the interesting part is that that turns around, and cultural evolution begins to shape our genetic evolution.” Our 2016 interview with Joe Henrich on cultural evolution:
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Nice to see two major recognitions go to work in my field(s):
-Sam Mehr (sam @mehr.nz) receives 🇳🇿 Prime Minister Emerging Scientist award (x.com/ScienceUoA/sta…)
-Rob Boyd elected to 🇺🇸 Academy of Arts & Sciences (x.com/ASUBeingHuman/…)

Congrats to both!

Honored to receive this and celebrate the contributions of Adam Smith!

#PanmureHousePrize winner Joe Henrich hosted a workshop with PG students studying at @Heriotwattuni. Wonderful to see engaging conversations about 'The Secrets of Our Success' on-campus in Edinburgh with incredible students across disciplines and study areas!
Heriot-Watt Engage HWUNews

LLMs are often evaluated in terms of how similar their behaviors are to humans

But which humans? From which cultural groups?

This paper by Mohammad Atari M. Xue Dr. Peter S. Park ⏸️ Damian Blasi Joe Henrich takes a cross-cultural perspective on these questions

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In episode 49, I talk with Dr. Robert Boyd about gene-culture coevolution, and cultural #evolution . #Anthropology #culture #Science

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Great news!!

Arizona State University Arizona State University Professor Robert Boyd is among those newly elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. Congratulations! 👏 Read more: bit.ly/3wkVHIP

Congrats!! 😊🥳 to Jenny Tung Jenny Tung, Director of the Dept. of Primate Behavior & Evolution MPI-EVA Leipzig, who has been elected to National Academy of Sciences 'in recognition of [her] distinguished and continuing achievements in original research'. Max Planck Society eva.mpg.de/press/news/art…

Stunning graph: the plummeting tax rates of the richest Americans. For the first time in history, billionaires have a lower effective tax rate than working-class Americans.

I'm pleased to have been chosen as one of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people improving health, #TIME100HEALTH . I think my main contribution is diagnosing the collective action problems, and pointing to ways we can escape, collectively.

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It's always fascinating to meet in person someone whose books I've read with great interest & whose work I'm citing & discussing in my lectures: with Joe Henrich Adam Smith's Panmure House; an inspiring talk by the winner of 2023 Panmure House Prize, on culture, evolution & collective brain.

My new professional home 😊 Delighted to be taking up the post of Director of the Centre for Culture and Evolution at Brunel University London. Check out the amazing people I’ll now be working with (along with several new hires not yet on the website!) brunel.ac.uk/research/Centr…

This 'Magic and Empiricism in Early Chinese Rainmaking' is fascinating (authors Kevin Hong Edward Slingerland Joe Henrich ). Also many places where we might replace 'rainmaking' with 'statistics' and sense remains similar. Article: doi.org/10.1086/729118

Yudhistira Ghifari Adlani Will Joe Henrich I haven't read it in detail. It looks like the Richerson Boyd Bettinger theory but elevating annual variation over stability of inter-decade variation. Could be both.

Prob w these arguments has always been the archaeology. So need to see what experts think about reconstructions

Weds! Join me at Harvard for a talk with the 'Misinformation' group at the Kennedy School. Major issues in women's reproductive psychology and sexual health have been neglected or obstructed by misinformation. Eager to discuss this with a policy audience!
shorensteincenter.org/new-event/horm…