Radical Anthropology

Front cover of Chris Knight and Jerome Lewis' forthcoming book shows three gesticulating figures in red, dancing, arguing or discussing?

✨Tues Mar 10, 18:30 (UTC London)🌗
Chris Knight and Jerome Lewis
The Revolutionary Origins of Language

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No to war

Can we all just agree that if your evolutionary theory of humans posits we all evolved to have the social values of 1950s American it’s probably wrong? Thanks.

The Blood Moon 2026 and the Full Moon.

It was so cloudy here, and the totality started not long after moonrise. The totality almost couldn't be seen by naked eye, I only noticed it after I took long exposure pic with my phone.

My blood moon shots from 2018 until 2026.

My Blood Moon collection

#BloodMoon #LunarEclipse

So lovely to have you back, Cedric, beautiful talk and really thought-provoking on child development and the ecology for learning language. Thank you!

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

Totality is over — Feast your eyes on the 1st photos of the blood moon total lunar eclipse 2026 Tonight's blood moon was the last that will be seen over North America until New Year's Eve 2028.

Blood moon pics!

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Lunar eclipse just past totality

Back to partial. March 3,2026 4:19 PST Carson City, NV USA #WNC #JCDO #Astronomy

Blood moon total lunar eclipse and aurora happening now in Fairbanks, Alaska!

Oh I missed this!

Tomorrow Tuesday's evo anth seminar @UCLanthropology: "Race and the Ethics of Human Diversity Research". Celso Neto. 3.30-5pm DFL followed by 🍷

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.

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

Paperback cover of Father Time: How Nurturing Is Natural for Men by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

Now in #paperback, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy's Father Time is a sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babies.

Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

#Evolution #Biology #Anthropology

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

James Baldwin

Women’s mental health: current status and evolutionary perspectives | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core Women’s mental health: current status and evolutionary perspectives - Volume 8

Women’s mental health: current status and evolutionary perspectives by Carol Worthman | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Hominin fossils and behavioural innovations in China across 2 million years rdcu.be/e5sjV

16 sitios en Guinea Ecuatorial con 418 herramientas de piedra que muestran ocupaciones humanas hace entre 44-20 ka en África central.
Middle Stone Age (MSA) in the Atlantic rainforests of Central Africa. The case of Río Campo region in Equatorial Guinea www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Quina lithic technology indicates diverse Late Pleistocene human dynamics in East Asia | PNAS The Late Pleistocene of Eurasia is key for understanding interactions between early modern humans and different types of archaic human groups. Duri...

Quina lithic technology indicates diverse Late Pleistocene human dynamics in East Asia

Refugee status becomes temporary in asylum shake-up Adults and accompanied children claiming asylum will only receive refugee status for 30 months under the changes.

Abysmal, immoral, cruel, small hearted, tiny minded, ineffective, undemocratic, and just generally utterly indecent. What a bitter godforesaken disappointment these people are.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The almost full moon tonight.
Just friendly reminder, we will have Lunar Eclipse tomorrow (or later after sunset from my time zone).

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

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?