Radical Anthropology
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London's longest running evening class. We study what it means to be human at UCL Anthropology dept. We are FREE, on Tues eves term time. Account run by Camilla Power. Radical anthropologists include Chris Knight, Ian Watts, Jerome Lewis and Morna Finnegan
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 9d
Our Autumn talks
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Radical Anthropology seminars
Radical Anthropology brings indigenous rights activists, environmentalists, feminists and others striving for a better world together with people of all ages who just want to learn about anthropology.
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 5m
Our talk on Tuesday coming with the wonderful Hugh Brody.
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 23h
Free community fediscience, please boost!
🌗Tues Oct 14🌘 6:30pm
'Tracks across Sand'
Hugh Brody

LIVE Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor,
UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak
Collage of Khomani San women from Hugh Brody's film 'Tracks across Sand'
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Abu Aardvark’s Ghost @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 22h
Gaza’s dead children. “As of the end of July it ran to 60,199 names of whom 18,457 were under 18. Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims.”

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive
www.theguardian.com
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Marwella Zhang @marwellaspaceart.bsky.social · 1d
The 99.5% waning gibbous at midnight.
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 23h
Interesting dental/isotope analysis of early Syrian farming communities, shows #patrilocality with women leaving families emerging late #neolithic

(This coincides with what Engels termed 'world historic defeat of female sex')

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-18134-3
Strontium and oxygen isotope analysis reveals changing connections to place and group membership in the world’s earliest village societies - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Strontium and oxygen isotope analysis reveals changing connections to place and group membership in the world’s earliest village societies
www.nature.com
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 23h
Free community fediscience, please boost!
🌗Tues Oct 14🌘 6:30pm
'Tracks across Sand'
Hugh Brody

LIVE Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor,
UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak
Collage of Khomani San women from Hugh Brody's film 'Tracks across Sand'
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 1d
Interview with Svante Pääbo, pioneer of palaeogenetics: our sheer numbers led to Neanderthal 'extinction' (but they are also our ancestors)

english.elpais.com/science-tech...
Svante Pääbo, father of paleogenetics: ‘The reason for the Neanderthals’ extinction lies in how numerous we’ve become’
The Nobel Prize winner in Medicine is investigating genetic changes that could have given our species a competitive advantage, and the possibility of extracting the genome of the Flores hobbit
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 1d
New article on #neanderthal cold #adaptations
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajhb.70150?campaign=woletoc
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Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social · 2d
Very interesting set of reflections on developmental language & reading disorders, across layers of analysis, by @drelsje.bsky.social
@nickyjdawson.bsky.social @emljames.bsky.social @salonikrishnan.bsky.social
(With many good references to @deevybee.bsky.social’s important work) 🧪🧬🧠🗣️
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Dr Elsje van Bergen @drelsje.bsky.social · 2d
🧩Learning to talk & read isn’t just about effort or teaching—it’s shaped by biology, experience & context

🧠Our new review links genetics, neuroscience, psychology & education to show why some children find language or reading easier.

📖 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

🖼️genes→brain→cognition→behaviour 🧵👇
Figure 2 in the review: Levels of analysis from genes and brain systems to cognition and behaviour. The child both influences and is influenced by parents through genetically shaped interactions, and by the wider school and social environment. Figure design by Neil Usher. Figure from this review paper: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/w23yz_v1
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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 6d
📚📚📚 New Book Review 📚📚📚
Hannah Brown reviews // “In the time of Ebola: Youth, family, and emergency in Sierra Leone” // By Jonah Lipton, Cornell University Press, 2024

Find it here in AE 52.4 Early View:
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 1d
I'm amazed Monbiot was that sympathetic to this stooge Pinker.
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Essay on neuroscientist Dale Purves making sense of the brain

https://aeon.co/essays/dale-purves-the-neuroscientist-who-makes-sense-of-the-brain
Dale Purves, the neuroscientist who makes sense of the brain | Aeon Essays
How can you have a picture of the world when your brain is locked up in your skull? Neuroscientist Dale Purves has clues
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Tracks of a #neanderthal toddler from 80,000 years ago on a Portuguese dune

https://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/tiny-footprints-of-a-neanderthal-toddler-reveal-the-deeply-human-story-of-a-family-on-the-move/
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 2d
Volker Sommer
TONIGHT
LIVE + ZOOM @UCL 👇
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 7d
🌕Tues Oct 7 🌕6:30pm
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'In praise of lying': the social origins of intelligence'

LIVE G20 Christopher Ingold Building
OPP Bloomsbury Theatre in Gordon St.
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak
Cover of the classic volume edited by Richard Byrne and Andy Whiten in Machiavellian Intelligence as the evolution of intellect among monkeys, apes and humans. It shows a funny cartoon of a big male hamadryas baboon, looking over a rock at his diminutive female imagining she is being good. But out of sight behind the rock she's grooming another male!
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Nice interview with wildlife cameraman Hamza Yassin, will be magic to watch.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/hamzas-hidden-wild-isles
Hamza's Hidden Wild Isles - Everything you need to know about the wildlife series from filming locations to featured species and more
Wildlife cameraman Hamza Yassin has spent a year travelling the length and breadth of the British Isles to reveal some of the hidden wildlife, wonder and beauty that plays out right under our noses
www.bbc.co.uk
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 1d
Is it British to endure two years of genocide in front of our eyes, and do nothing about it? Who wants to be 'british'?

Wash your ears out with true world leader Greta Thunberg here 👇
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 2d
Greta Thunberg speaks: 'no one has to come to the rescue of Palestinian people. What we are doing is hearing and acting upon their calls for people all over the world to take action and end our complicity...'

https://youtube.com/shorts/0diMSuz2Syc?si=IwqFpyl2KpHTsRgW
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 1d
He's good
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 5d
@zackpolanski.bsky.social is asked about the Home Secretarys comments that yesterdays protests about Israels actions were dishonourable (she also said they were unBritish).

Zack is spot on.
Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 1d
Gorgeous! Happy Hunter's Moon!
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Marwella Zhang @marwellaspaceart.bsky.social · 2d
The Full Moon this evening.
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival a.k.a. Happy Moon Cake Festival too!

This year, I got 2 moon cakes.
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 2d
Sorry, HUNTER'S moon more like!
Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 2d
Volker Sommer
TONIGHT
LIVE + ZOOM @UCL 👇
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 7d
🌕Tues Oct 7 🌕6:30pm
Volker Sommer
'In praise of lying': the social origins of intelligence'

LIVE G20 Christopher Ingold Building
OPP Bloomsbury Theatre in Gordon St.
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak
Cover of the classic volume edited by Richard Byrne and Andy Whiten in Machiavellian Intelligence as the evolution of intellect among monkeys, apes and humans. It shows a funny cartoon of a big male hamadryas baboon, looking over a rock at his diminutive female imagining she is being good. But out of sight behind the rock she's grooming another male!
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 2d
Greta Thunberg speaks: 'no one has to come to the rescue of Palestinian people. What we are doing is hearing and acting upon their calls for people all over the world to take action and end our complicity...'

https://youtube.com/shorts/0diMSuz2Syc?si=IwqFpyl2KpHTsRgW
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 2d
Happy Full Moon, overnight tonight, Tues early hours in London. But you should see a very full Harvest Moon rise after sunset on Tuesday

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/c059dyvvjj7o
October Harvest Moon: When to see the first supermoon of 2025
It will be visible on 7 October and Sarah Keith-Lucas explains why it will be the biggest and brightest full Moon so far this year.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 3d
Free Community Fediscience
With Volker Sommer
TOMORROW EVENING
LIVE + ZOOM @UCL 👇
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 7d
🌕Tues Oct 7 🌕6:30pm
Volker Sommer
'In praise of lying': the social origins of intelligence'

LIVE G20 Christopher Ingold Building
OPP Bloomsbury Theatre in Gordon St.
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak
Cover of the classic volume edited by Richard Byrne and Andy Whiten in Machiavellian Intelligence as the evolution of intellect among monkeys, apes and humans. It shows a funny cartoon of a big male hamadryas baboon, looking over a rock at his diminutive female imagining she is being good. But out of sight behind the rock she's grooming another male!
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Roberto Sáez @robertosaezm.bsky.social · 2d
La adaptación de los denisovanos a sus hábitats influyó en la configuración de nuestra resistencia genética a las infecciones:
The role of Denisovan paleohabitats in shaping modern human genetic resistance to viral, bacterial, and parasitic infections
The role of Denisovan paleohabitats in shaping modern human genetic resistance to viral, bacterial, and parasitic infections
Denisovans contributed notably to the genomes of present-day East and Southeast Asians. However, the relationship between the inhabited paleohabitats …
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 2d
🚨🚨 "The ECHR is not some foreign imposition that curtails our sovereignty. It was born of British leadership after the horrors of the Second World War, drafted with heavy British influence, and championed by Winston Churchill himself". Great stuff by Sir Robert Buckland KC:
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