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rayhames.bsky.social
Evolutionary anthropologist (University of Nebraska - Lincoln) with interest in labor and food exchanges, small scale societies, war, wildlife conservation, marriage Home-page at https://rhames.unl.edu/
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Well worth a close read and includes humans - Biological Reviews - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/a...

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Bonobo news: We found that females target males in 85% of their coalitions, that females occupy higher ranks compared to males when they form more frequent coalitions. ...female coalition formation is a behavioral tool for females to gain power over males. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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Weird and irrelevant reference padding.

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doi.org/10.1086/732036

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Whoever alerted me to this response by Azar Gat to Michael Mann's "On War", THANKS. The takedown was systematic and exposes a certain blindness in sociology. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

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Although Cavalli-Sforza died in 2018 at the age of 96, here is a retrospective piece on his truly innovative contributions to the story of human evolution in joining archaeology and other human sciences with population genetics. Met him when I worked at NSF www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/b70f0d...

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"the narrow bandwidth of ideas that Western academics often draw upon when formulating hypotheses for socio-cultural phenomena in other times and places"

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Today's re-reading and noting a lovely photo of the Gunwinggu from Jon Altman's important work. They no doubt feasted for days and called in friends and relatives to join in

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I know that you-all occasionally get this academic junk but the subject line in the email is so - I really don't know what to say "Great News! You are Highly Invited for Servicing as a Editor in Chief"

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We could use more studies like this one by sociologists who are not afraid of evolutionary theory sociologicalscience.com/articles-v10...

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Mass editorial board resignation at the Journal of Human Evolution. Why? Elsevier the publisher of JHE has an enormous 24% profit margin. To increase it further they are cutting back copy editing and other human resources necessary for a well-run journal. x.com/markwgrabows...

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Montaigne in "Of Cannibals" described Brazilian native Tupinamba visitors to France in 1562 and their assessment of French civilization

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My profile image has been blurred because of "explicit sexual imagery". Dumb AI I suspect. The suspect link to my homepage has a bare chested Yanomamo woman with other bare chested men peering over my shoulder as I work on my computer. I have appealed. I hope I get a pass.

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Excellent history of evolutionary anthropology as it relates to human behavior and culture. The take home point is that both human behavioral ecology and evolutionary psychology need to account for culture per se more effectively and intergratively. Open access at www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....

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Seems that it has a small chance of success but one can hope and hope it will lead others to effectively expose the collusion and exploitation: www.chronicle.com/article/a-ma...

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Luke Glowacki just published an excellent critique on war among mobile foragers with a focus on the work of Fry and Söderberg inter alia. I have published my own reservations of their Science paper. But Luke's paper uncovered more problems. I had to change my lecture notes to include the following

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80% of the world's biodiversity found in indigenous territories. The figure is false and incomprehensible yet cited in 186 scientific publications www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Thought of the day: scientific journals exploit reviewers. It takes me about half-a-day of work to do a good review and sometimes more with SOM's. A tiny step in the right direction would be to compensate reviewers with a gratis two year subscription to the journal. Thoughts?

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Our failure to reproduce Anderson et al (2023), The Myth of Man the Hunter, is now published: 🧪 authors.elsevier.com/c/1j2qf3tz49...

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