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Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, UCL

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Ruth Mace FBA is a British anthropologist, biologist, and academic. She specialises in the evolutionary ecology of human demography and life history, and phylogenetic approaches to culture and language evolution. Since 2004, she has been Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at University College London. .. more

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Ruth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social · 6d
'The manosphere’s enthusiasm for evolution goes beyond appropriation and selective interpretation of existing research' New paper by LouisBachaud et al | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A hundred and two just-so stories: exploring the lay evolutionary hypotheses of the manosphere | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
A hundred and two just-so stories: exploring the lay evolutionary hypotheses of the manosphere - Volume 7
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Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) @tse-fr.eu · 6d
Apply now to our next Summer School! 🤝

We are glad to host the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences from 26 May to 19 June 2026 — a great opportunity for PhD students in economics, political science, and other social sciences.

Application: www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...

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Ruth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social · 7d
I love the British Library. Every day it is packed with people young and old. The architecture is great. The exhibitions are great. It is one of the best bits of cultural infrastructure that got built in the last few decades. It needs to be OK!
hetanshah.bsky.social Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 7d
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 7d
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com

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Ruth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social · 8d
Tomorrow Tuesday @UCLanthropology evo anth seminar: Eleanore Rolland. ‘Maternal styles in chimpanzees’ DFL 3.30-5pm followed by🍷 All welcome
www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
www.ucl.ac.uk

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 9d
This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds
Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment
www.theguardian.com

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Euan Angus Young @euantheyoung.bsky.social · 15d
1/13 New paper out! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Historical records across thousands of women showed that mothers with more children had shorter lifespans during a famine, fitting an evolutionary explanation for why we age
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 15d
Hard to think of a better epitaph for a scientist than this: “She inspired us to see the world with both rigor and heart”

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In Memoriam Jane B. Lancaster (1935–2025), a Pioneer in Anthropology
Click on the article title to read more.
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Ruth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social · 15d
Tomorrow Tuesday @UCLanthropology evo anth seminar: Ozan Aksoy 'Hair speaks: social context and the interpretation of religious signals such as veiling and beards'. DFL 3.30-5pm followed by🍷 All welcome
www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
Evolutionary Anthropology seminars
Exploring the evolutionary roots of human behaviour, biology, and culture through interdisciplinary research and debate.
www.ucl.ac.uk

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15d
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

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Ruth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social · 18d
FINALLY we understand why lactase persistance spread!
Effects of ancestry, agriculture, and lactase persistence on the stature of prehistoric Europeans: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Effects of ancestry, agriculture, and lactase persistence on the stature of prehistoric Europeans
Cox et al. combine polygenic scores and skeletal metrics to show that Neolithic Europeans were not substantially shorter than earlier or later groups. They also show a strong gene-environment interact...
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Ruth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social · 18d
The fitness costs and benefits of hunter-gatherer locomotor engagement | Evolutionary Human Sciences | by George Brill and Mark Dyble. Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The fitness costs and benefits of hunter-gatherer locomotor engagement | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
The fitness costs and benefits of hunter-gatherer locomotor engagement - Volume 7
www.cambridge.org

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Kathelijne Koops @kathelijnekoops.bsky.social · 18d
✨Check out this new publication✨

Using long-term data from the Tsimane, we show that the differences between boys and girls in how their object play develops are linked to the different subsistence roles of men and women.

Read the full article here:
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Object play in Tsimane children: implications for sex-specific division of labour | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
Object play in Tsimane children: implications for sex-specific division of labour - Volume 7
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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 23d
Funding for students!!

New £6k UCL Anthropology MSc Bursary for Home students:
www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...

You can also apply to the £10k UCL Bursary at the same time - so if you get both, it should cover all your fees & a chunk of living costs🤞
www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...
Julia Scott Memorial Bursary
The aim of the Julia Scott Memorial Bursary is intended to enable students in financial need to pursue their postgraduate studies in the Anthropology Department at UCL.
www.ucl.ac.uk

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EHBEA 2026 @ehbea2026.bsky.social · 28d
Leiden looking good today ;-)
📢 Abstract submission will be open Nov 1st – Dec 15th for EHBEA 2026
⚡Present your research, connect & collaborate 14-17 April
📝 300 words (extendable to 800 after acceptance)
For more information & our full call for abstracts, check www.ehbea2026.com
EHBEA 2026 in Leiden - abstract submission opens soon!

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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 28d
Happy to announce that reflections on our workshop about non-biological kinship in Vienna last year is already published!
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www.sciepublish.com/article/pii/...
Beyond Genetics: Exploring Aspects of Non-Biological Kinship in Prehistoric Times
This article explores alternative ways of conceptualizing kinship in prehistoric contexts beyond the confines of genetic reductionism. While ancient DNA research has revitalized interest in the archae...
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