Heidi Colleran

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Cartoon of Darwin holding a copy of the Original, looking into a mirror and seeing as his reflection Malthus holding a copy off his Essay on the Principle of Population. By Tom Dunne for American Scientist.

OTD in 1838, Charles Darwin read Malthus’s Principles of Population “for amusement.”

The idea of a “war of nature” was venerable, but D realized that such a war would tend to remove deleterious variations from populations. Natural selection would necessarily follow.

🌱🐋🧪#HistSTM #philsci 📈📉#evolbio

Assistant Professor Online applications must be received before 11:59pm on: November 2, 2025 If a date is not listed above, review the Applicant Instructions below for more details. Available Title(s): 270-NN_FACULTY - A...

We're hiring! WSU anthropology is looking to hire a TT Asst Prof in cultural anthropology, with a health, well-being, or human-environment interactions. This is a great dept with friendly folks! CV and cover letter due by 11/2 wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jo...

Abortion bans making pregnancy more dangerous, shaming women for using tylenol, making the world more dangerous for babies: this is all pronatalist because pronatalism is about recreating mandatory childbearing, not making childbearing easier.

Trump officials unveil highly contentious conclusions on autism Trump claims acetaminophen heightens autism risk when used by pregnant women but studies contradict statement

Oh cool let’s make it even harder for pregnant women to get through their day. Maybe they should all give up working to focus on…..wait a minute…🧐

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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

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

Leave a review on Goodreads or Amazon if you can.

Please help spread the word!

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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

At @ishe-society.bsky.social, we are looking for someone to review @mgurven.bsky.social new book, "Seven decades" for Human Ethology. It looks terribly interesting! DM/email for details (and to get a hard copy 😊)

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Just got my copy! Congratulations Mike! 🥳

Bringing mortality back into our understanding of fertility change: revisiting the onset of fertility transitions using net reproduction measures - Journal of Population Research This paper argues for the reintegration of mortality into studies of fertility transition by using net reproduction measures rather than solely focusing on total fertility rates (TFR). Accounting for ...

"paper argues for the reintegration of mortality into studies of fertility transition by using net reproduction measures rather than total fertility rates. Incorporating mortality provides a more nuanced understanding of demographic transitions & has important implications for population policies"

<em>Studies in Family Planning</em> | Population Council Journal | Wiley Online Library This study examines Mexico's fertility transition (1930–2015) and how socioeconomic status (SES), geography, and indigeneity shaped reproductive behaviors. Using net fertility—the number of surviving...

Unveiling Mexico's Demographic Transitions: "Our spatial analysis reveals a concentric diffusion pattern, where fertility changes spread outward from urban, high-SES municipalities" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Haven’t had time for a while, but I still think about Under The Skin, and Tár - two great female led movies

An absolute privilege to interview the scientist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy for @hpspodcast.bsky.social
She was so generous & honest in talking about the shifts she had to experience in order to 'see' that men could be expert carers of babies #philsci #hps #fathertime

YouTube video by European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association Heidi Colleran - EHBEA 2025

Starting the week strong 💪 we share now the plenary talk of @heidicolleran.bsky.social, which was part of @ehbea2025.bsky.social

Here, she talks about the misconceptions and the biases behind the idea of “natural fertility”👶

Pass by, have a look, and stay tuned!

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Even more linguistic-cultural diversity! I am truly grateful for this beautiful experience of fieldwork & learning along with Anja Becker. This is all possible thanks to the hospitality and trust of the community of Dixon Reef, Vanuatu #MULTILING-HIST @erc.europa.eu @heidicolleran.bsky.social

Junior Professorship (non-tenure) in Environmental Anthropology Deadline: 01.10.2025

JOB: come work with me @uni-konstanz.de ! We have a junior professorship to fill from 1 April 2026 (6 years, non-tenured, as funding comes from the Centre for Cultural Inquiry).
The denomination is very timely: Environmental #Anthropology!
Details ⬇️
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#academia

The last piece associated with the brilliant team effort to rethink aDNA results and social relations in Neolithic Ireland is in this month’s Current Archaeology magazine with an absolutely gorgeous cover image of Newgrange (credit: Ken Williams) archaeology.co.uk

Mi hapi tumas mo tenkyu long janis blong wok wetem National Museum mo direktor Kaitip Kami mo wetem Kalja Senta long Vanuatu! Hemia daerekt patnasip wetem tim blong @heidicolleran.bsky.social long MPI-EVA we i gat longfala ekspiriens blong mekem risej long Malekula mo ol narafala ples long Vanuatu.

Malthus’ fear of over-population no longer seemed relevant to observers who worried about dwindling national strength and efficiency. The menace of ‘depopulation’ also became a subject of medical and scientific study as experts from many different disciplines explored its causes and consequences. Academic debate about fertility decline became intertwined with wider concerns about the future of the family, the nation and the economy which the educated public and politicians from different parties shared. A haunting sense of decadence and decay pervaded late nineteenth-century culture and politics. Alarmists used terms like ‘sterility’ and ‘impotence’ to invoke deep-seated fears about the disastrous consequences of ‘infecundity’ for great powers in an age of industry and empire. For political leaders as much as for distinguished intellectuals, the drop in the birthrate threatened to endanger the nation’s prospects for continued prosperity and progress.

It's time to play, "1900, or 2025?"

From: Maria-Sophia Quine, Population Politics in Twentieth Century Europe (1996).

Essay which clearly outlines the scientific and ethical problems with selecting embryos for polygenic traits. Scientists associating themselves with embryo selection companies, and those who’ve previously defended sociogenomics but are staying silent on these companies, come in for criticism here

Jane Lancaster and Human Nature - Human Nature Human Nature -

The great Jane Lancaster has passed away. She was a titan and very kind to me all the years I was at UNM. See a tribute from her friend and mine, Bob Hitchcock here:

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Jane Lancaster (1935-2025), a major figure in the development of human behavioral ecology, passed away yesterday. Jane was on my PhD committee and was always supportive of me and my work. She will be missed.
Here is the In Memoriam posted by UNM Anthropology:
anthropology.unm.edu/news-events/...

Oh gosh. RIP And condolences. 💐

Darwinist feminism: Dismantling the myth of female sexual passivity The arrival of researchers like Sarah Blaffer Hrdy and Amy Parish transformed not only the study of primates, but also our understanding of evolution, sexuality and gender roles in general

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A wonderful thread on the purposes and value of anthropology by @judithbeyer.bsky.social

Campop blog #59: Some say rises in lone motherhood since c.1950 indicate breakdown of the nuclear family & call for returns to Victorian values. But 19C levels of lone parenthood & reconstituted families were similar to today's ...
@camunicampop.bsky.social
www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/07...

I am SO jealous! I went to the one in 2015 (!!!) in Montreal and have been dying to go back since. Enjoy!