Mike Harvison

YouTube video by Darante' LaMar Defeat Supremacy: Build Community, Not Opposition #shorts

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Small, regular floods are part of the natural ebb and flow of a healthy river. But development and increasingly frequent and powerful storms are making floods bigger and more damaging. A natural approach to managing floodplains -- the low-lying areas ar... American Rivers Restoring Floodplains

A natural approach to managing floodplains — the low-lying areas around a river — can reduce flood risk to our communities and provide critical habitat for waterfowl, fish, land animals, and freshwater species.

🎥 Watch how: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiX_1vimFcs

The study inevitably focuses on Western lifestyle women, which may say plenty about what this patriarchal society values and demands. Menopause/post-reproductive lifespan had a significant role in our becoming human. And may not always have been plagued by anxiety, depression or memory problems.

Ocean Damage Nearly Doubles the Cost of Climate Change - Inside Climate News The global cost of greenhouse gas emissions are nearly double what scientists previously thought, according to a study published Thursday by researchers at the University of California San Diego’s Scr...

🔵 ICYMI: A new study led by Scripps Oceanography and @gpsucsd.bsky.social scientists provides a more complete measure of the monetary harm caused by global climate damages. @insideclimatenews.org shares more. ⬇️

1/7 Look, Mom, no hands!

They have studied the age at which chimpanzees take the most risks (jumping and doing crazy things from tree to tree). It turns out that they have a peak in childhood, and it decreases as they grow older. This tells us something very interesting about ourselves.

Here's Sarah Hrdy reflecting on her 1974 paper on infanticide in Hanuman langurs

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Identifying late Pleistocene and Holocene refugia for baboons - Communications Biology Hindcasted species distribution modelling of baboons illuminates potential refugia across Africa and Arabia, with predicted maxima and minima of habitable ranges pulsed by orbital precession and obliq...

New paper alert! Led by @jblinkhorn.bsky.social, we look at refugia for baboons in the Pleistocene and Holocene, offering a potential analogue for early hominins where climatic tolerances are shared.
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Thank you @prelights.bsky.social & Alejandra Leffer's group for choosing our preprint on @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social and for this chance to talk about human- #malaria coevolution!🦟
@eegcam.bsky.social @elliescerri.bsky.social @MPI_GEA

Independence day in #Malta!

Hunter-gatherers were crossing at least 100K of open water to reach the Mediterranean island 8,500 years ago, 1K years before the arrival of the first farmers.

From consortium led by @elliescerri.bsky.social @maxplanckpress , inc. @UMmalta .

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You've heard of the human "cognitive revolution" around 40 kya—a moment when our species suddenly became "behaviorally modern." Have you also heard that this story is wrong?

From the archive, our episode w/ @elliescerri.bsky.social & @manuelwill.bsky.social!

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In @nature.com we report the presence of the Mesolithic on Malta - upending everything we knew about the seafaring capabilities of late European hunter-gatherers and pushing back Maltese prehistory by 1000 years. Watch the clip, link to open access paper is below. 1/5
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Harpoons Before History Remembered How 5,000 year old whale hunters on Brazil’s coast rewrote the origins of maritime life

Whale hunting began 5,000 years ago on Brazil’s coast, long before Arctic whalers. Bone harpoons from sambaquis reveal deep maritime knowledge and cooperation. A forgotten chapter of ocean history. #Archaeology #Anthropology #Whaling #IndigenousHistory #MaritimeCulture

Interesting modelling by Ed Hagen on evolution of #menopause here https://zenodo.org/records/18149332

Fossils from the Grotte à Hominidés, Morocco, and crossroads of human evolution Jaws, teeth, and a hyena-chewed femur may be close to the common ancestor of Neanderthals, Denisovans, and modern people.

#JohnHawks shares a perspective on newly described fossil hominins, which may illuminate a critical time in our evolutionary story.

https://www.johnhawks.net/p/fossils-from-the-grotte-a-hominides

Until we find evidence of Denisovan burials I will suspect that the Neanderthal burials are associated in place and time with the influence of the Homo Sapien lineage.

Australian ancestral artefacts of the story of the fight betweenTapara, who becomes the Moon, and Purukupali, whose son dies (at his insistence when the Moon offers to bring him back to life after he had sex with Purukupali's wife)

Tues Jan 13, 6:30pm
Chris Knight
An Australian Myth: the Moon and the Origins of Death

All welcome
LIVE in Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak

Top 10 Discoveries of 2025 - A Feminine Touch - Archaeology Magazine - January/February 2026 Çatalhöyük, Turkey

Link here
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Homo heidelbergensis and The Origins of The Middle Stone Age: The Kabwe (Broken Hill) Lithic Assemblage - African Archaeological Review The Middle Stone Age (MSA) saw the emergence of novel behaviours in the archaeological record and is generally associated with our own species, Homo sapiens. Yet, most archaeological assemblages conta...

H heidelbergensis and the origins of the Middle Stone Age: the Kabwe lithic assemblage

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Piece on the recent findings at Çatalhöyük, showing matrilocality and greater tendency of grave goods in female infant burials:
'female babies and children were five times as likely to be favored with grave goods as their male counterparts' […]

YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder Big Tech Wants To Build Data Centers In Space: Does This Make Sense?

Data Centres in Space: Genius or Crazy?

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Paper proposes a CRASH Clock for satellite collision risk : It's getting crowded up there

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AI datacenter boom could end badly, Goldman Sachs warns : Bank sketches four scenarios in which monetization falters or demand swamps supply by 2030

Take all that access to power, water and climate control and turn it into housing.

Cell Type-Specific Hormonal Signaling Configures Hypothalamic Circuits for Parenting Parenting behavior emerges from hormonally sensitive circuits, but how distinct circuit components are affected by, and contribute to, sex and state dependent changes in infant caregiving remains uncl...

New paper alert!!...🤩 Led by @blogeman.bsky.social, we identify how cell type-specific hormonal responses in the hypothalamus tunes parenting behavior in males and females 🐭🧠🍼. Highlights in thread 👇 1/6

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<em>Population and Development Review</em> | Population Council Journal | Wiley Online Library This article examines the relationship between household demographic pressure and interage transfers for a group of Maya subsistence agriculturists in Yucatán, Mexico. The authors use data from a fie....

Children have never been a net economic benefit - they've always been costly to raise - although in the past children's economic contributions helped underwrite large family size onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Homo sapiens-specific evolution unveiled by ancient southern African genomes - Nature The genomes of 28 ancient southern African&nbsp;individuals dated to between 10,200 and 150 years before present offer insights into the evolution of Homo sapiens.

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A late Middle Pleistocene Middle Stone Age sequence identified at Wadi Lazalim in southern Tunisia - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - A late Middle Pleistocene Middle Stone Age sequence identified at Wadi Lazalim in southern Tunisia

This late Middle #Pleistocene MSA site in S #Tunisia looks very interesting given how cutting edge the Moroccan sites are.

#WadiLazalim #Sahara

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-07816-x

Good news!

According to Chris Knight in “Blood Relations” these totemic restrictions operate on the level of kinship. These animals share their own flesh and eating them could be a form of incest as food and sexual taboos are related. Therefore does not take the form of a “state” or top down control.

‘I used to be a bit naughty’: Portsmouth defied funding cuts and saved its youth centres – here’s what happened Two decades ago, Portsmouth city’s council chose to fund and prioritise playgrounds and youth clubs to help its poorer families – and the benefits are plain to see

The importance of children's safe space to play. A very nice piece on the playground matriarchy of Portsmouth.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/10/young-people-poverty-uk-portsmouth-funding-youth-clubs-playgrounds-families-benefits

Research first to show humans have remote touch “seventh sense” like sandpipers

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