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🌱 Exciting updates from East Pasco Academy! Our diverse student body, ages 1-4, is thriving with Frog Street Curriculum and Conscious Discipline, thanks to a grant from the Early Learning Coalition. 📚We're planting a garden, thanks to donations from @USouthFlorida. Stay tuned!

Tomorrow is the last day for free access to Dr. Emily Emmott’s fascinating new Cambridge Element on breastfeeding and public health: doi.org/10.1017/978100… @Emily_Emmott @CambridgeUP

New Cambridge Element Improving Breastfeeding Rates by @Emily_Emmott @UCLanthropology @UCL_evoanthro out now! Read for free for 2 weeks ow.ly/EgrE50MRLNG #cambridgeelements #psychology

My mini-book on breastfeeding & public health from an evolutionary anthropological perspective is now available online, and ✨free to download for the next 1.5 weeks✨: doi.org/10.1017/978100… After that, you can still access my pre-print copy🙂 doi.org/10.31219/osf.i…

Happy #DarwinDay ! To celebrate, join me in the formation of a new group called the Prosocial Commons. Free introductory webinar on Feb 22! thisviewoflife.com/introducing-th…. @EvoInstitute @CulturalEvolSoc @HumBehEvoSoc @myACBS @evolvingfutures @timoreilly

Mass Extinctions in our Once and Future World | February 12th, 7:00pm EST | Darwin Day Connecticut | darwindayct.org (4/4)

Genome Editing, Eco-Evolutionary Perspective | February 11th, 10:15-1:20pm CET | University of Oslo | mn.uio.no/.../public/dar… (3/4)

Darwin Day is this Saturday, February 12th. Here are some free online events you can catch this week to honor the work of Charles Darwin and celebrate the common language of science for a better world: (1/4) #DarwinDay #Evolution

⚛️Adaptation for Survival: Humans and their Pathogens | February 10th, 4pm EST | Penn State University⚛️psu.edu/news/campus-li… (2/4)

Right! In contrast to orthodox economics, which is intimidating in addition to false😀 @DJSnower @angusarmstrong8 @RebuildMacro @EricBeinhocker @NickHanauer @rorysutherland @hangingnoodles @EvonomicsMag @INETeconomics

The passing of #eowilson made me think quite a lot about the meaning of his work. Here is my reflection in @tvolmag: thisviewoflife.com/the-six-legaci…. @CulturalEvolSoc @EvoConscious @HumBehEvoSoc @CulturalEvolSoc @ESICulture @EvoInstitute @JonHaidt @JoHenrich @EOWilsonFndtn

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This article by @hangingnoodles indeed should be kept in circulation. Slowly, MLS is becoming the paradigm that replaces individualism in all its forms. @DJSnower @timoreilly @EvonomicsMag @rorysutherland @EvoInstitute @tvolmag

"Q: Might you give us “the elevator pitch,” the summary conclusion of your theory? EOW: It’s the way my colleague David Sloan Wilson puts it." I'm Proud to be carrying on #EOWilson emphasis on group selection.

“Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.” “A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.” --E.O. Wilson, 1929-2021

E.O. Wilson was an inspirational scientist who changed the way we think about ourselves and our planet. He will be deeply missed.

Last Friday East Tampa Academy held a free health screening for K-1st Grade 🙌🏽

What implications do cultural evolution & cooperation have for cooperative AI? #NeurIPS2021 talk: nips.cc/Conferences/20… Insights include diffs in constraints b/w genetic & cultural evolution vs machine learning; interaction b/w scales of cooperation. Live Q&A Tues 14th 7 PST