Radical Anthropology

Cedric Boeckx is Research Professor at the Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies (ICREA), a member of the Universitat de Barcelona Institute of Neuroscience and Institute of Complex Systems (UBICS), as well as a member of the section of General Linguistics at the Universitat de Barcelona.

But from a cognitive point of view, evidence currently available suggests that subtle differences may exist among late hominins. I will be reviewing these, and ask which differences may have made a difference.'

Cedric writes:
'We have learned so much over the past decade about the many ways in which there was no Great Leap Forward or sudden ‘big bang’ mutation that made us human. We have also learned how other hominins behaved in ways once thought to make sapiens unique.

TOMORROW EVENING
We welcome
linguist and neuroscientist
Cedric Boeckx on
'How sapiens made history'

great comment here on the paper by @dralexanderplatt.bsky.social et al on the Neanderthal introgression desert on our X chromosome. Strongest evidence yet for prevalent matrilocality/liny as H sapiens expanded into Europe. So skilled Neanderthal local hunters did brideservice for women in H s camps?

Paws crossed, Yoshon!

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The antidote to war

Love it. Neanderthals in red! They got out a lot of the red ochre when Hs turned up.

Two versions of 'Distracted Boyfriend' memes depicting a male Neanderthal being distracted by a modern human female and a modern human female being distracted by a male Neanderthal in a red dress.

This is not a figure from our new Science article, but it could've been:

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Looking forward to seeing friends @radicalanthro.bsky.social in London tomorrow

We are excited to be hosting
@cedricboeckx.bsky.social
at UCL on Tuesday on
'How sapiens made history'

We have been writing for a long time on likely matrilocal/matrilineal prevalence in emerging/speciating Homo sapiens, so it's great to have this supported.

Matriliny is well known for its ability to recruit outsiders and slot them into the kinship system.

Cedric Boeckx is Research Professor at the Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies (ICREA), a member of the Universitat de Barcelona Institute of Neuroscience and Institute of Complex Systems (UBICS), as well as a member of the section of General Linguistics at the Universitat de Barcelona.

But from a cognitive point of view, evidence currently available suggests that subtle differences may exist among late hominins. I will be reviewing these, and ask which differences may have made a difference.'

Cedric writes:
'We have learned so much over the past decade about the many ways in which there was no Great Leap Forward or sudden ‘big bang’ mutation that made us human. We have also learned how other hominins behaved in ways once thought to make sapiens unique.

We are excited to be hosting
@cedricboeckx.bsky.social
at UCL on Tuesday on
'How sapiens made history'

bsky.app/profile/mare...

Neanderthals very useful local hunters who could do brideservice in matrilocal tendency H sapiens camps.

Yes!

We think this is a strong case. Neanderthal men could have been very useful bodies with local savvy doing brideservice in matrilocal tendency H sapiens camps.

'In cases like these, the political and economic organization of the expanding group is based in matrilineal clan or descent networks. The members of the culture reckon their kinship, loyalty, and affinity by their mothers and more distant maternal kin.'

I think this is a strong case. Neanderthal men could have been very useful bodies with local savvy doing brideservice in matrilocal tendency H sapiens camps.

89.5% waxing gibbous on Saturday few mins after sunset.

When will the UK government wake up to the wholesale destruction of HE that's happening?
This affects towns and cites across the UK, our businesses, the NHS, schools, young people, our global standing, everything! Higher Education, Universities, contribute over £265 BILLION to the economy.

‘The river won’: how campaigners in Brazilian Amazon stopped privatisation of waterway Local river defenders force U-turn by occupying grain terminal operated by one of US powerhouses of world trade

'The river won'
...helped by humans occupying a grain terminal operated by Cargill, the biggest privately owned company in the United States.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We are excited to be hosting
@cedricboeckx.bsky.social
at UCL on Tuesday on
'How sapiens made history'

‘The river won’: how campaigners in Brazilian Amazon stopped privatisation of waterway Local river defenders force U-turn by occupying grain terminal operated by one of US powerhouses of world trade

'The river won'
...helped by humans occupying a grain terminal operated by Cargill, the biggest privately owned company in the United States.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

An ancient dog breed regulates pitch when howling with music Patel et al. show a component of human singing, the ability to coordinate vocal pitch with other simultaneous voices, exists in the howling of an ancient dog breed. This shows the ability can arise in...

“flexible control of voice pitch can evolve independently of complex vocal learning in the context of simultaneous group vocalization” (“simultaneous pitch regulation as a precursor of complex vocal learning, not its byproduct”?)
cool @currentbiology.bsky.social study led by A. Patel 🧪🎶

@zackpolanski.bsky.social with the perfect reply to all those people complaining that one of the issues the Greens campaigned on in Gorton & Denton is Gaza.