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Mything out on ‘sustainable development’— why it ain’t happening
And where to go from here
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I don’t think there’s any clear, neat way to demarcate where “the crucible of cultural evolution” begins & “industrial tech life” ends, they’re thoroughly intertwined
The dark side of tech & industry may seem ascendant at times like this, vaccines & solar panels are also industrial tech life
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That’s fair. So American rural folk ain’t it. What about Guatemalan rural folk?
Cities are major achievements and crucibles of cultural evolution, I agree.
But urban industrial tech life… nah.
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There used to be a great handle on twitter something like "bad evopsych" giggling at all this nonsense. I don't think it's made it over here sadly
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“In short, we are irreparably maladapted to the present: the pace of cultural evolution has rendered our brains functionally obsolete for life in the modern environment of our own making.”
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Religious Doctrines as Psychological Inoculations: Forewarning, Refutational Preemption, and the Cultural Evolution of Belief Persistence: osf.io/zmnwx
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I have similarly been fascinated by Galloway’s pivot to masculinity expert and have watched a lot of him talking about it and I think that the strangest thing about it is how about 50% of what he says is indistinguishable from forums-level evopsych derived from first principles.
Karl Bode@karlbode.com
I'll never get over how easy it was for Scott Galloway to just go out and purchase a role as a tech and masculinity expert now he's everywhere, constantly, and you couldn't avoid him if you wanted to
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Thanks for doing such an amazing work and research!
Give them a round of applause and congratulations 👏👏👏
#ehbea2026 #ehbea #prize #science #confeneece
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Best poster (Public vote)
@deepshika-arun.bsky.social - “Punishing Without Courts: When Minds Meet Morals in Hunter-Gatherers”
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Best student talk (Public vote)
Leah Köninger - “The (mis)use of evolutionary psychology in women's online discussions of gender roles”
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Best student poster (Jury evaluation)
Sara Flick - “Storytelling and social cohesion: How humans tell stories and build bonds”
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🚨AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT🚨
@ehbea.bsky.social gives away prizes for best talk and poster for students in every of our conferences.
This year, in @ehbea2026.bsky.social, we gave a total of four prizes, based on either a jury evaluation or public vote.
And the winners are...🥁🥁🥁
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Relatedly, people forget (or never knew) that Dawkins did not develop the idea of a meme as a theory of cultural evolution. It was rather a (flawed) pedagogical device to help explain the idea that design will emerge whenever you have selection, inheritance and a source of variation
Thom Scott-Phillips@thomscottphillips.bsky.social
Dawkins wrote an intro to Blackmore's The Meme Machine, and in it he writes something like, "Every theory deserves its best shot" — which isn't a ditching but it is a cautious, "I'm not actually sure about this"
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You can read about our research at the Department for Linguistic and Cultural Evolution at @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social , our webpages have gotten an overhaul :)!
www.eva.mpg.de/linguistic-a...
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Cultural evolution:
- Archaic: Minimal self/other distinction (pre-compactified consciousness)
- Traditional: Rigid boundaries (over-compactified, authoritarian structures)
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you know how refreshing it is to not have to see written-on-bathroom-wall evopsych every day? that was a feature of twitter even before elon got it
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I'll be presenting this work at the Cultural Evolution Society (CES) 2026 Conference in Rabat, Morocco (airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026) on May 13. If you attend the conference and are interested in this, let's talk!
airess.fgses-um6p.ma
Cultural Evolution Society 2026 Conference | Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique - FGSES
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We model (cultural) evolution using adaptive dynamics. Strategic complementarity (at the utility level) decides the sign of the convergence stable singular strategy: strategic complements → λ*>0 (benevolence); substitutes → λ*<0 (malevolence).
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For a detailed interpretation of the results, see www.science.org/content/a…. (2/2)
🧪 #science 🏺 #HumanEvolution #BioAnth #PaleoAnth #aDNA
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Ten thousand years ago, human evolution went into overdrive
Ancient DNA reveals “massive” genetic shifts tied to rise of farming, wheels, and metal tools
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Big results for #HumanEvolution! Evidence of extensive directional selection in the Eurasian human genome in the last 10k years, while previous results always found this to be rare. (1/2)
🧪 #science 🏺 #BioAnth #PaleoAnth 🧬 #aDNA
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia - Nature
Analysis of 15,836 ancient West Eurasian genomes reveals hundreds of instances of directional selection, showing that sustained changes in allele frequency were widespread, rather than being...
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The CES New Investigator award is given to a researcher who has shown outstanding contribution and potential in the field within 5 years of gaining their PhD, with the award package including a CES plenary. We're looking forward to hearing Mason's talk at the next (2028) CES conference!
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Mason's recent research has uncovered language-like structure in whale & bird song, and identified cognitive biases driving cultural change in domains from music to politics. He merges composition with data to create immersive installations that reconstruct the lost songs of extinct species.
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Mason Youngblood is a computational scientist and sound artist at Stony Brook University's Institute for Advanced Computational Science. He uses agent-based modeling, simulation-based inference, and machine learning to study cultural evolution in human and nonhuman animals.
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The Cultural Evolution Society is delighted to announce that Mason Youngblood (he/they) @masonyoungblood.bsky.social, Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University, is the recipient of the 2026 CES New Investigator Award.
Congratulations Mason on this well-deserved award!!
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