Laura Fortunato
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anthrolog.bsky.social
Laura Fortunato
@anthrolog.bsky.social
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Biologist turned anthropologist, I study the evolution of human social / cultural behaviour. Also open research, reproducibility, free and open-source software, and their intersections.

Professing at Oxford / Magdalen College and the Santa Fe Institute.
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rebeccasear.bsky.social
Brunel's press release about our (@hggaddy.bsky.social @anthrolog.bsky.social) recent publication, showing that high levels of polygyny don't necessarily lock men out of the marriage market

www.brunel.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Data questions myths about multiple wife marriages, men and violence
A new study analyzing 84 million census records reveals that polygyny does not increase the number of unmarried men. In many societies where polygyny is common, men are actually more likely to be marr...
www.brunel.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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davidwlawson.bsky.social
Simplistic stories about the dangers of polygamy can be compelling & intuitive, but what is the evidence that monogamous marriage is advantageous for society?

theconversation.com/rethinking-p...
Rethinking polygamy – new research upends conventional thinking about the advantages of monogamous marriage
Simplistic stories about the dangers of polygamy can be compelling and intuitive. But new research suggests some arguments about its harms don’t hold up.
theconversation.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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rebeccasear.bsky.social
If one man marries two women, another man must go unmarried, right? No. Demography matters. If sex ratios are skewed towards women, then polygyny can exist alongside universal marriage for men (who want to marry women). If only more people understood demography 😊
October 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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brunelcce.bsky.social
🧵 1/ New paper from CCEs @rebeccasear.bsky.social led by @hggaddy.bsky.social with @anthrolog.bsky.social challenging some common assumptions about polygyny (there are many…)

it's open access 🔓 🧪 @brunelpsy.bsky.social
High rates of polygyny do not lock large proportions of men out of the marriage market
www.pnas.org
October 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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hggaddy.bsky.social
🚨 The Economist has been telling you for years that polygamy causes civil war by locking men out of marriage. A new article with @rebeccasear.bsky.social and @anthrolog.bsky.social explains that the demography of marriage markets doesn't actually work that way. 🧵

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
High rates of polygyny do not lock large proportions of men out of the marriage market | PNAS
There is a widespread belief, in both the scholarly literature and the popular press, that polygyny prevents large numbers of men from marrying by ...
www.pnas.org
October 6, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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kevinlala.bsky.social
I'm pleased to share this new article by @svenkasser.bsky.social, Laura Fortunato @anthrolog.bsky.social, Marc Feldman and myself.

The article extends gene-culture coevolution to recognize evolutionary effects of culture arising through drift and migration.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
August 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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anthrolog.bsky.social
Looking at you, @royalsociety.bsky.social 👀
Meme in the style of "this is Bill", featuring a smiling stick-figure wearing a brown bobble hat on the right and black text on the left, all on white background. The text reads "This is Dorothy. Dorothy resigned her FRS to protest Elon's FRS. Be like Dorothy.", with the first and third sentences in bold.
November 26, 2024 at 4:17 PM
anthrolog.bsky.social
Hello friends, I'm new here, I may get round to doing a proper #introduction at some point 😅 but since today is #givingTuesday, here's a plug for @conservancy@sfconservancy.org's annual fundraiser 💚

#FOSS #FLOSS #openSource #openScience #digitalRights

https://sfconservancy.org/
Software Freedom Conservancy
The Software Freedom Conservancy provides a non-profit home and services to Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects.
sfconservancy.org
December 3, 2024 at 4:39 PM
anthrolog.bsky.social
Looking at you, @royalsociety.bsky.social 👀
Meme in the style of "this is Bill", featuring a smiling stick-figure wearing a brown bobble hat on the right and black text on the left, all on white background. The text reads "This is Dorothy. Dorothy resigned her FRS to protest Elon's FRS. Be like Dorothy.", with the first and third sentences in bold.
November 26, 2024 at 4:17 PM