Michael Gurven

Was a pleasure!

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The Nautilus Winter Reading List 2025 The Nautilus Winter Reading List 2025: Ten books we loved to start your new year off right.

Thanks, @nautil.us for including my book Seven Decades: How We Evolved to Live Longer in your top 10 must reads to ring in the new year!

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There's no greater gift than one that sparks curiosity & wonder. ✨

Browse our gift guide to find books that take readers on journeys through the intricacies of nature, the beauty of physics, & the incredible possibilities & risks of tech.

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The anti-aging gold rush should focus on quality of life, not just quantity “If Moore’s law applies to life expectancy the way it does to electronics, then we’ll have to spend and innovate exponentially more to keep pace,” writes Michael D. Gurven.

1/Enjoyed this @statnews.com piece by @mgurven.bsky.social offering sensible perspective on improving life expectancy of populations, incl increasing physical activity, "the best anti-aging remedy we have, an all-purpose longevity extender." www.statnews.com/2025/11/20/l...

Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences

📣 Are you a PhD student in the quantitative social sciences interested in interdisciplnary research? Join us at the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences (25 May-19 Jun 2026) at @tse-fr.eu.

Apply by 15 Dec 2025 🎓🔍

👉 More info + application: www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...

Looking forward to this!

Rethinking polygamy – new research upends conventional thinking about the advantages of monogamous marriage Simplistic stories about the dangers of polygamy can be compelling and intuitive. But new research suggests some arguments about its harms don’t hold up.

Simplistic stories about the dangers of polygamy can be compelling & intuitive, but what is the evidence that monogamous marriage is advantageous for society?

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Was a great conversation, thanks, Xavier!

A photo of the Susan Welch Liberal Arts building at sunrise

📢 Come join us! Penn State Anthropology is hiring *two tenure-track assistant professors*, one in human reproductive ecology and one in archaeology. Here are just a few reasons why working at Penn State is awesome:

Finally in my hands! A new book from @mgurven.bsky.social on why we age, and how we can age better, through the lens of evolutionary anthropology💙 Very excited to dive in!

Thanks, Elijah!

We are hiring (Post number 2) - join us as a graduate research assistant to support killer whale research. Collaboration with @samellisq.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social Prof Dan Franks (York) start 1st Nov (or ASAP) end 31st Oct 2028. Apps close on 19th Oct.

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An amazing opportunity with great multidisciplinary colleagues in the wonderful pink city of Toulouse

Much appreciated, David! Very kind.

Released today!
SEVEN DECADES: HOW WE EVOLVED TO LIVE LONGER
Now available at your favorite bookseller.

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Had a fun time talking with the Daves… thanks for having me on. check it out!

Just one week away until SEVEN DECADES is born. Not too late to preorder (code PUP30 for discount):
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I hear from friends that the preorders are already arriving!

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The book we have all been waiting for from @mgurven.bsky.social is finally here!! Read it to get a broad perspective on human evolution and aging - stay for the fun titles 😀

Just got this book by one of my favourite anthropologists (and people) in the mail - if it's only half as good as the gushing advanced praise, this'll be an instant classic! Also, brilliant title, immediately putting to bed the notion that long lifespan is a new thing; we've evolved to live to ~70

I’m having a great time in Bolivia with @mgurven.bsky.social, Jon Stiglitz, and Tsimane anthropologists investing the connection between different aspects of #sleep and Alzheimer’s and Dementia risk as part of my #postdoctoral research

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One month before SEVEN DECADES: HOW WE EVOLVED TO LIVE LONGER is released!

A prelim copy just arrived. I’m in Bolivia but my son opened the shipment and it appears that he approves.

Preorder now (30% discount code: PUP30): press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Indirect genetic effects among neighbors promote cooperation and accelerate adaptation in a small-scale human society Social effects on fertility promote population growth and the evolution of flexible cooperation in a small-scale human society.

I'm very excited to share the central paper from my PhD out now in Science Advances. We investigated how social effects among neighbors shape the evolution of reproductive cooperation and the pace of adaptive population growth among the Indigenous Tsimane of Bolivia.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Congrats to @amy-anderson.bsky.social for leading this project from start to finish. Was fun to work at the intersection of bioarchaeology, human biology and epidemiology!

Childhood skeletal lesions common in prehistory are present in living forager-farmers and predict adult markers of immune function Skeletal indicators of childhood stress are associated with cellular indicators of compromised immune function in adults.

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Clinically ignored, archaeologically common. Are these holes in the head a thing of the past?

So glad to finally have this award winning research (@paleopathology.bsky.social ) out -- cribra orbitalia and its relationship to health in living Tsimane adults.

Seven Decades An anthropologist uncovers new evidence for the evolutionary origins of human longevity—and explains why growing old is an opportunity, not a burden

Your next Fall read, my new book: SEVEN DECADES: HOW WE EVOLVED TO LIVE LONGER

Longevity is shaped by our evolutionary past—imagine aging as opportunity rather than burden.

Out Sept 16, preorder w/ code PUP30 for 30% discount: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Hot and Bothered at Work: The "Menopause Penalty” New research shows an earnings dip during menopause

“researchers found a 10% drop in earnings 4 years after a menopause diagnosis — due to both reduced hours & women leaving the workforce altogether. Women were also more likely to start disability benefits after a diagnoses. Notably, this impact was concentrated among women without a college degree”

“You are Married by the Woman”: Divergent Understandings of Men’s Support for Women’s Empowerment in Northwestern Tanzania - Joseph A. Kilgallen, Alexander M. Ishungisa, Pius Charles, Theresia Marco C... Engaging men in women’s empowerment is a global priority, yet there is still limited understanding of how men’s support for women’s empowerment is conceptualize...

🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨

“You Are Married by the Woman” explores how men’s support for women’s empowerment is understood in a fast-urbanizing Tanzanian community.

If you're interested in gender, masculinity, and social change, check it out!

Canada Research Chair - Indigenous Health and Well-Being

Job available for Full Professor Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (CRC) - Indigenous Health and Well-Being at the Faculty of Health Science, Simon Fraser University (RT 🙏🏼 please):

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