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Zach Garfield @zhgarfield.com · 1d

Also. 'Behavior' is obv a very common tag line, but perhaps overly used and not always fitting, as you point out. ‘Evo, Cult, and the Mind’ might work better as a tripartite main title with subtitle. Excited for this to come out!

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Zach Garfield @zhgarfield.com · 1d

This is very good. But by not including 'social' does it open ambiguity? No paleo? No genetics? No disease ecology? No microbiome? not sure...

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Zach Garfield @zhgarfield.com · 1d

I agree! I'm not against having the 'mind' in the title. I quite like it, actually. But I'd say 'behaviour' is probably more important for a title than mind...Perhaps something like, Culture, Mind, and Behavouir: An intro to human evolutionary social science..or something.

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 2d

Say you were looking for a free, online textbook to use in your teaching of #EvoPSych, Human Behavioural Ecology, Cultural Evolution (or all combined)... which of these titles would tempt you most?

(see post below...)

#EHBEA
#HBES
#CulturalTransmisison
#HigherEduction
#TLHE

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Zach Garfield @zhgarfield.com · 1d

2 > 1 >> 3 >>> 4. I like 3, but the four nouns seem like one too many. Perhaps, if you dropped 'mind' I would prefer 3=2.

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Zach Garfield @zhgarfield.com · 16d

#HBES2026 abstract submissions are live! More exciting details to come soon.

Arrive early for @ces2026.bsky.social

@humbehevosoc.bsky.social

HBES2026 @hbes2026.bsky.social · 16d

We’re delighted to share that the 37th annual Human Behavior and Evolution Society conference (HBES2026) website is now live!

#HBES2026

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Zach Garfield @zhgarfield.com · 17d

@thomscottphillips.bsky.social @damianblasi.bsky.social @kevinlala.bsky.social

Zach Garfield @zhgarfield.com · 18d

If only there was a theory to explain this... ;))

@edhagen.net 🧪

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ethanol ingestion via frugivory in wild chimpanzees

Natural daily consumption of dietary alcohol by chimpanzees suggests human attraction to alcohol may come from our ancestral diet.

www.science.org

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Zach Garfield @zhgarfield.com · 19d

#CESRabat 🇲🇦

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Cultural evolution 🧪

ces2026 @ces2026.bsky.social · 19d

We’re delighted to share that the CES2026 Conference website is now live!

We warmly invite researchers, scholars, and practitioners to submit their presentation proposals by November 16th through the submission portal on the website.

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ces2026 @ces2026.bsky.social · 19d

We’re delighted to share that the CES2026 Conference website is now live!

We warmly invite researchers, scholars, and practitioners to submit their presentation proposals by November 16th through the submission portal on the website.

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Zach Garfield @zhgarfield.com · 20d

Ahh...the png from the article doesn't cross-post well. Here's the figure from the manuscript (zhgarfield.github.io/files/garfie...) :

Figure from cross-cultural coding from ethnographic data showing the percentage of societies supporting six features of reputation: Cultural group unity (about 80% of societies), Social & material success (about 60%), Neural capital (about 60%), Dominance (about 50%), Supernatural healing (about 45%) and Sexuality (about 23%). Caption from manuscript: Percentage of cultures providing evidence for reputation features (95% CI estimated via cluster bootstrap).

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Zach Garfield @zhgarfield.com · 20d

Thanks! I’m subscribed!! Will check these out.

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Zach Garfield @zhgarfield.com · 20d

What Makes a Good Reputation? | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ecol...

#BehSci @psychologytoday.com

What Makes a Good Reputation?

Reputations matter everywhere—but not always for the same reasons.

www.psychologytoday.com

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Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) @tse-fr.eu · 20d

🔍 #EconJob Research Assistant in Political Economy

You'll work w/ M. Montenegro @hlarreguy.bsky.social, J. Merilainen & N. Garviras

💡France-based—Toulouse ideal; remote OK; part/full-time
🧠 Advanced Stata skills + knowledge of Spanish preferred

Application: mateo.montenegro[at]tse-fr.eu

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Thom Scott-Phillips @thomscottphillips.bsky.social · May 23

New Substack post

It's very personal: my story of a 20-year academic career, and the many challenges of theoretical and cross-disciplinary work

As I put it in the subtitle: There is a lot of success and a lot of pain here, and no happy ending

thomscottphillips.substack.com/p/happy-in-t...

Happy In Theory

This is the short story of my long, 20 year search for a stable academic home. There is a lot of success and a lot of pain here, and no happy ending.

thomscottphillips.substack.com

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Zach Garfield @zhgarfield.com · 24d

Hence the brand, 🪓

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Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · 24d

💙New paper!💙

How is knowledge transmitted across generations in a foraging society?

With @danielredhead.bsky.social
we found: In BaYaka foragers, long-term skills pass in smaller, sparser networks, while short-term food info circulates broadly & reciprocally

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Transmission networks of long-term and short-term knowledge in a foraging society

Abstract. Cultural transmission across generations is key to cumulative cultural evolution. While several mechanisms—such as vertical, horizontal, and obli

academic.oup.com

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Zach Garfield @zhgarfield.com · 24d

It's happening! And HBES will directly follow and overlap with CES, including a joint plenary to unite these two stellar scientific communities...don't we all love economies of scale.

Do you happen to know anything about that cool logo?

Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 25d

The count down starts for #CESRabat! Follow @ces2026.bsky.social and join us May 11-13 next year for an exciting meeting in Rabat, Morocco.

Massive thanks to the #CESRabat organising committee:
Sarah Alami (co-chair)
Mathieu Charbonneau (co-chair)
Zachary Garfield
Edmond Seabright

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 25d

The count down starts for #CESRabat! Follow @ces2026.bsky.social and join us May 11-13 next year for an exciting meeting in Rabat, Morocco.

Massive thanks to the #CESRabat organising committee:
Sarah Alami (co-chair)
Mathieu Charbonneau (co-chair)
Zachary Garfield
Edmond Seabright

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 25d

We are delighted to announce that the CES2026 conference website is now live! We invite you to submit your presentation proposals using the link on the webpage, deadline November 16th:
airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026

Cultural Evolution Society 2026 Conference | Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique - FGSES

airess.fgses-um6p.ma

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Zach Garfield @zhgarfield.com · 28d

Quite evocative of parent-offspring conflict and the demands of motherhood. @mammalssuck.bsky.social, did you know this one??

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Zach Garfield @zhgarfield.com · Sep 5

high social capital, albeit nearly exclusively inter-specific.

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Zach Garfield @zhgarfield.com · Sep 5

"Gandalf and Saruman are similarly framed as opposites..Yet both share rare knowledge and supernatural power...Gandalf built trust across hobbits, men, elves, and dwarves. Saruman..built an alliance with & grew increasingly dependent on Sauron."

#LeadSciSky

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ecol...

The Many Faces of Leadership

What makes someone a leader isn’t just strength or charisma. It’s the mix of resources they bring—and how those align with what their group needs.

www.psychologytoday.com

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Vivek V. Venkataraman @vivek123.bsky.social · Sep 2

A great piece on the women's hunting debate by Elena Bridgers that covers some of our work: elenabridgers.substack.com/p/did-women-...

Did Women Hunt in Our Evolutionary Past?

When Western gender ideology gets in the way of good science

elenabridgers.substack.com

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