Paweł Chyc
@anthrocogni.bsky.social
#Cognitiveanthropology, #ethnography (Bolivia, Amazonia), #culturalevolution, cultural epidemiology, CESR, #predictiveprocessing and drawings of #aphantasia
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"these features of punishment have been largely ignored by evolutionary social scientists and psychologists, leading to misleading assumptions about the evolution of punishment and cooperation"
What’s punishment like in small-scale societies? - HBES
– by Léo Fitouchi (Image credit Frans Huby, Creative Commons 3.0) Humans want wrongdoers to suffer. From the justice courts of modern societies to the biblical “eye for an eye,” people everywhere have...
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September 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
"these features of punishment have been largely ignored by evolutionary social scientists and psychologists, leading to misleading assumptions about the evolution of punishment and cooperation"
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Received my copy of this formidable doorstopper.
A thousand pages on how cultures change.
In Chapter 66, with @twaring.bsky.social and Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, we consider how the science of cultural change can be applied to...
...change culture more, and climate less. Or so we hope.
A thousand pages on how cultures change.
In Chapter 66, with @twaring.bsky.social and Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, we consider how the science of cultural change can be applied to...
...change culture more, and climate less. Or so we hope.
September 19, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Received my copy of this formidable doorstopper.
A thousand pages on how cultures change.
In Chapter 66, with @twaring.bsky.social and Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, we consider how the science of cultural change can be applied to...
...change culture more, and climate less. Or so we hope.
A thousand pages on how cultures change.
In Chapter 66, with @twaring.bsky.social and Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, we consider how the science of cultural change can be applied to...
...change culture more, and climate less. Or so we hope.
September 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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"we argue cultural ecosystems should be studied through the same mechanisms as other ecosystems—ecological modifications, phenotypic responses, legacy effects & ecological cascades. Different ecosystems may require specific methods or concepts, but not fundamentally different theoretical frameworks"
The ecological approach to culture
The prevailing view in the literature treats cultural dynamics as fundamentally distinct from other ecological processes—governed by a second system o…
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April 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
"we argue cultural ecosystems should be studied through the same mechanisms as other ecosystems—ecological modifications, phenotypic responses, legacy effects & ecological cascades. Different ecosystems may require specific methods or concepts, but not fundamentally different theoretical frameworks"
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Previously undescribed human gut bacteria that aid in the digestion of plant cellulose are scarce in urban societies but abundant in ancient and hunter-gatherer microbiomes, according to a 2024 Science study. scim.ag/4j0GEqE #ScienceMagArchives
Cryptic diversity of cellulose-degrading gut bacteria in industrialized humans
Cellulolytic human gut bacteria are scarce in urban societies but abundant in ancient and hunter-gatherer microbiomes.
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March 31, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Previously undescribed human gut bacteria that aid in the digestion of plant cellulose are scarce in urban societies but abundant in ancient and hunter-gatherer microbiomes, according to a 2024 Science study. scim.ag/4j0GEqE #ScienceMagArchives
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New episode!! 📣📣
A conversation w/ @kevinlala.bsky.social about his new (co-authored) book, ‘Evolution Evolving'!
Ideas about evolution have changed a lot in recent decades. An emerging view—synthesized by Lala et al.—puts developmental processes front and center.
Listen: disi.org/the-developm...
A conversation w/ @kevinlala.bsky.social about his new (co-authored) book, ‘Evolution Evolving'!
Ideas about evolution have changed a lot in recent decades. An emerging view—synthesized by Lala et al.—puts developmental processes front and center.
Listen: disi.org/the-developm...
February 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
New episode!! 📣📣
A conversation w/ @kevinlala.bsky.social about his new (co-authored) book, ‘Evolution Evolving'!
Ideas about evolution have changed a lot in recent decades. An emerging view—synthesized by Lala et al.—puts developmental processes front and center.
Listen: disi.org/the-developm...
A conversation w/ @kevinlala.bsky.social about his new (co-authored) book, ‘Evolution Evolving'!
Ideas about evolution have changed a lot in recent decades. An emerging view—synthesized by Lala et al.—puts developmental processes front and center.
Listen: disi.org/the-developm...
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Cool postdoc position in language evolution in Toruń
www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas...
www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas...
Employment Opportunities at NCU - Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń website. Employment Opportunities at NCU
www.umk.pl
March 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Cool postdoc position in language evolution in Toruń
www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas...
www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas...
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Cultural Attractors by Dan Sperber: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.61e20c82
January 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Cultural Attractors by Dan Sperber: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.61e20c82
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1/ 🧵 ✨ BRAND sparkling new CCE paper on how beliefs in witchcraft enforce social norms 🧙♀️✨
What role does witchcraft play in regulating social behavior? New research from @aiyanakoka.bsky.social and Co examines how beliefs in witchcraft and envy shape norms around social conduct in Mauritius👇
What role does witchcraft play in regulating social behavior? New research from @aiyanakoka.bsky.social and Co examines how beliefs in witchcraft and envy shape norms around social conduct in Mauritius👇
Witchcraft, Envy, and Norm Enforcement in Mauritius
link.springer.com
January 23, 2025 at 10:59 AM
1/ 🧵 ✨ BRAND sparkling new CCE paper on how beliefs in witchcraft enforce social norms 🧙♀️✨
What role does witchcraft play in regulating social behavior? New research from @aiyanakoka.bsky.social and Co examines how beliefs in witchcraft and envy shape norms around social conduct in Mauritius👇
What role does witchcraft play in regulating social behavior? New research from @aiyanakoka.bsky.social and Co examines how beliefs in witchcraft and envy shape norms around social conduct in Mauritius👇
Drawing helps me to struggle with #aphantasia. Sometimes I will share some of my drawings here...
November 27, 2024 at 7:54 PM
Drawing helps me to struggle with #aphantasia. Sometimes I will share some of my drawings here...
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The archives of the International Cognition and Culture Institute (active 2008-2021) are now freely online with past blogs, webinars, and discussions from anthropologists, biologists, cognitive scientists, historians, linguists, and philosophers: cognitionandculture.net/index.html
International Cognition and Culture Institute
This website is not active any more. We are in the process of transforming it into a permanent open archive and of optimising it for that function.
cognitionandculture.net
September 11, 2024 at 4:26 PM
The archives of the International Cognition and Culture Institute (active 2008-2021) are now freely online with past blogs, webinars, and discussions from anthropologists, biologists, cognitive scientists, historians, linguists, and philosophers: cognitionandculture.net/index.html
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Maybe a useful information: you can go on skyfeed.app and create a custom feed. As an example, this uses a regex "cultural evolution | social learning" and shows all posts that contain one or the other expression (not the most sophisticated one I guess, but I experimented for one minute!)
November 14, 2024 at 2:32 PM
Maybe a useful information: you can go on skyfeed.app and create a custom feed. As an example, this uses a regex "cultural evolution | social learning" and shows all posts that contain one or the other expression (not the most sophisticated one I guess, but I experimented for one minute!)
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September 21, 2024 at 8:24 AM
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November 9, 2024 at 9:40 AM