Co-creator of @TimeAndClades. Anthropology Undergrad Alumna. Mermaid at Heart. Natural History, Animation, and Pinups. 🏴 Art by @IlariPatila
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Anthropologists have often assumed hunting was a male activity for hominin relatives. New research adds strong support to the data for female hunting dominance in bonobos. Is this a better model than the male-dominated chimpanzees for ancient hominins?
johnhawks.net/p/woman-the-hu…
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More from @WollatonHall -- I absolutely adore these old taxidermy diorama cases, with landscaping and background painting that merge to create the environment. Great cormorant, Eurasian bittern, Eurasian coot, Northern raven shown here. #birds #taxidermy #museums
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The hobbit book is finally real and you can preorder it, which feels completely wild. Coming August 2027. #Homofloresiensis
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Have you seen this gorgeous poster of the latest APG community-based classification of flowering #plants?
Download it for *free* here!
tudelft.nl/en/hortus-botanic…
...and read all about APG-V in #JSE!
🆓doi.org/10.1111/jse.70096 @WileyEcology #evolution #systematics #APGV
ALT Poster illustrating results of APG-V.
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A long-standing debate in anthropology concerns whether people in other societies wholeheartedly believe that magic is an effective technology. Drawing on recent work in political science and psychology, Levy et al. argue that this debate should consider whether informants’ reports are sincere and accurate. Levy at al. suggest that people in small-scale societies - and those in WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) societies too - may exhibit a range of attitudes to magic: wholehearted belief (and disbelief), a more symbolic attitude, and even no fixed attitude at all.
hbes.com/who-really-believes…
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378/380 CE. Teotihuacan, in central Mexico, may have extended power to distant Maya lands. Son of Spearthrower Owl, Teotihuacan ruler, is crowned king in Maya Tikal. science.org/content/article/…
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Phylogenomics confirms Palaeoptera monophyly and illuminates the origin of winged insects | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.26…
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New article by Trevor Watkins:
"The Deep Palaeolithic Roots of the South-West Asian Neolithic"
cambridge.org/core/journals/… – at Turin, Piedmont
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The origin of dinosaurs in light of recent discoveries from Brazil | Journal of Paleontology | Cambridge Core - cup.org/3VGyP2R
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Dolls are incredibly widespread but not universal cross-culturally. In addition to functioning as toys, dolls are commonly used for supernatural purposes to punish enemies, heal or protect, increase fertility, or embody spirits. New paper in EHB with @NachitaRosun.
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🚨Big News🚨
I wrote a book! It's out on February 9th & it’s available to pre-order right now! 🦈
Published by @unipressbooks & @PrincetonNature, & featuring incredible art by the amazing @SerpenIllus, you can pre-order here: amazon.co.uk/Megalodon-Other… 🦈 (1/4)
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The idea that #whales (cetaceans) are deeply nested within #Artiodactyla is well supported by molecular, fossil and anatomical data. Cetacea is part of Artiodactyla. Some molecular biologists have wrongly thought that this discovery warrants a renaming of Artiodactyla, and... 1/n
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Uma água-viva macroscópica do Cambriano Inicial do sul da China nature.com/articles/s42003-0…
