Heritability is a statistical description of sources of trait variation in a specific set of people under a specific set of environmental conditions. It doesn’t show how malleable the trait is, doesn't index an underlying feature of human biology, & can’t say anything about you as an individual.
I have an RA doing a short visit. Maybe I’ll make them compile a complete listing as a radicalisation exercise
No like one night stand versus lifetime monogamy. Gotta get those 3mm extra while you can!
Putting almost 2Y old to sleep, cuddling and she’s almost gone. Start to sing a lullaby tenderly. Sweet child, I think. Two bars in, she slams my mouth repeatedly and roars through her pacifier a muffled but threatening BUS! ‘Wheel on the bus’ for the next 20 mins.
Adorable wooden horses on wheels were pulled around by little ones in the past, too. A timeless reminder that play has been part of the human experience for millennia.
From Egypt, Roman period, 30 BC-150 AD.
📷 Julia Thorne/Manchester Museum
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This, from demographer Francesco Billari, is very good:
“The real choice for political leaders is not whether to accept demographic change. It is whether to continue to fight it symbolically or to start governing it strategically”
www.businessday.co.za/opinion/2026...
These are ritual artefacts, belonging especially to women's rituals in relation to reproduction and social reproduction, notably blood symbolism--menarcheal, childbirth. Not goddesses, not queens. Women with blood potency
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
Timeline cleanse!
A marvellous baby feeding bottle in the shape of a mouse. 🐀🐭
Campanian, 4th century BC.
From the collection of the Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe (currently closed)
📷 me
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