🚨 In the first publication from our ESRC-funded project on age-based imitation, we asked parents their views on what and how children in four communities should learn from peers and adults.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
This is a REALLY useful guide
Coming out in a couple of weeks. 30k new words!
Across cultures, parents consistently reported that children should learn from adults via mechanisms like imitation and teaching, but with peers via collaboration!
As always, special thanks to our participants, who took the time to help us understand their points of view!
'It was not a huge surprise to find myself in the Epstein files...'
My investigation into the scientists bewitched by money and the dilettante superficiality of Jeffrey Epstein's need to be near clever men.
newhumanist.org.uk/articles/a-t...
Very proud of my PhD student Alexes Mes for her first archaeology paper where she has developed a novel Bayesian spatiotemporal model for estimating arrival times using 14C dates authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
First real post on the new blog!
If you follow human genetics, you've likely of "missing heritability". If you look at twins to estimate heritability, you get values much larger than what molecular genomic methods produce. IQ, for example, goes from 50-80% heritability to 10-15%. Which is right?
Sheina Lew-Levy
Our new commentary is out: "More than the sum of its sexes" — on embodied capital & age-structured labor in forager economies.
Big thanks to Venkataraman et al. for their excellent "Man the Hunter" piece that clarifies much. Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
