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'Evolution Evolving. The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity', by Kevin Lala, Tobias Uller, Nathalie Feiner, Marcus Feldman and Scott Gilbert, is now available @PrincetonUPress Find out more at evolutionevolving.org

'Evolution Evolving. The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity', by Kevin Lala, Tobias Uller, Nathalie Feiner, Marcus Feldman and Scott Gilbert, is now available @PrincetonUPress Find out more at evolutionevolving.org

'Evolution Evolving. The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity', by Kevin Lala, Tobias Uller, Nathalie Feiner, Marcus Feldman and Scott Gilbert, is now available @PrincetonUPress Find out more at evolutionevolving.org

Scientists should stop arguing about whether science is political and get on with defending science against increasingly powerful attacks on it, which, yes, means scientists should be political advocates 👇🔥

I had a wonderful meeting this morning with the extraordinary biological anthropologist, author and TV presenter @theAliceRoberts. Very pleased that Alice has agreed to Chair the Advisory Committee for our initiative “Transforming Human Origins Research”!

'Evolution Evolving. The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity', by Kevin Lala, Tobias Uller, Nathalie Feiner, Marcus Feldman and Scott Gilbert, is now available @PrincetonUPress Find out more at evolutionevolving.org

Fifty years after the discovery of Lucy, it’s time to ‘decolonise paleoanthropology’ says leading Ethiopian fossil expert – podcast theconversation.com/fifty-years-af… via @ConversationUK

Delighted and honored to have been selected for the 2024 @voxdotcom #FuturePerfect50 list! vox.com/future-perfect… @maxplanckpress @UniKonstanz @CBehav @MPI_animalbehav

Loss of Earth’s old, wise, and large animals | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

New study shows how niche construction affects the evolution of remembering and forgetting. Niche construction is found to reduce or stabilize environmental volatility when learned environmental resources can be monopolized. In other conditions niche destructors evolve. doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2… 📷

great line from a great article: "Indeed, different incarnations of eugenic ideologies keep appearing." pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Excellent new paper which clearly explains how “a gene-culture coevolution perspective can refute reductionist & determinist claims while providing an inclusive multidisciplinary framework to interpret human variation” Genes, culture & scientific racism pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

In this article (shorturl.at/PmTT0) University of St Andrews Professor Kevin N. Lala explores what evolutionary biology tells us about the impact of culture on human behavior, and what that means for efforts to lead complex organizations more effectively. "Human minds were not just built for culture, they were built by culture," Lala writes. "For our species, cultural solutions dominate because culture is the component of our evolutionary adaptability that functions to cope with rapidly changing features of the environment." For more from Kevin Lala, you can order his just-published book, "Evolution Evolving: The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity," here: evolutionevolving.org

'Evolution Evolving. The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity', by Kevin Lala, Tobias Uller, Nathalie Feiner, Marcus Feldman and Scott Gilbert, is now available. @PrincetonUPress Find out more at evolutionevolving.org

'Evolution Evolving. The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity', by Kevin Lala, Tobias Uller, Nathalie Feiner, Marcus Feldman and Scott Gilbert, is now available. @PrincetonUPress Find out more at evolutionevolving.org

'Evolution Evolving. The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity', by Kevin Lala, Tobias Uller, Nathalie Feiner, Marcus Feldman and Scott Gilbert, is now available. @PrincetonUPress Find out more at evolutionevolving.org

.@RachelAHarrison explores a #PLOSBiology study in birds by @evogom &co suggesting that changes in the physical environment, rather than the social environment, are key in prompting #SocialLearning by immigrants. Primer: plos.io/3USkKw4 Paper: plos.io/3CpSzOG

“the problem turned out to be not that heritability was imaginary, but rather that it was misinterpreted as supporting a hereditarian model of human behavioral differences, when in fact it does not”