Radical Anthropology
@radicalanthro.bsky.social
London's longest running evening class. We study what it means to be human at UCL Anthropology dept. We are FREE, on Tues eves term time. Account run by Camilla Power. Radical anthropologists include Chris Knight, Ian Watts, Jerome Lewis and Morna Finnegan
Pinned
Action and judgement tomorrow deciding if we're dragged through the courts!
RAPID RESPONSE ACTION
The Royal Courts have just announced that the judgment for the Judicial Review over the ban on Palestine Action will take place this Friday at 10am
wedonotcomply.org - all links and info
Action will take place in London and Edinburgh.
Lift The Ban on Palestine Action!
The Royal Courts have just announced that the judgment for the Judicial Review over the ban on Palestine Action will take place this Friday at 10am
wedonotcomply.org - all links and info
Action will take place in London and Edinburgh.
Lift The Ban on Palestine Action!
February 12, 2026 at 12:53 PM
Action and judgement tomorrow deciding if we're dragged through the courts!
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Green Party policy ‘Abolish Landlords’: solving the housing crisis
The Green Party's 'Abolish Landlords' policy could end the housing crisis with a number of measures that will benefit tenants | Dean Conway
@deanconway.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk
The Green Party's 'Abolish Landlords' policy could end the housing crisis with a number of measures that will benefit tenants | Dean Conway
@deanconway.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk
Green Party policy ‘Abolish Landlords’: solving the housing crisis
The Green Party's 'Abolish Landlords' policy could end the housing crisis with a number of measures that will benefit tenants
centralbylines.co.uk
February 12, 2026 at 7:53 AM
Green Party policy ‘Abolish Landlords’: solving the housing crisis
The Green Party's 'Abolish Landlords' policy could end the housing crisis with a number of measures that will benefit tenants | Dean Conway
@deanconway.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk
The Green Party's 'Abolish Landlords' policy could end the housing crisis with a number of measures that will benefit tenants | Dean Conway
@deanconway.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk
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The International Society for Hunter-Gatherer Research are delighted to announce that CHAGS 14 will take place in Belém, Brazil Mon 12 - Fri 16 July 2027. Events/trips immediately before/afterwards.
Tx to hosts: Goeldi Museum & Federal Univ. of Pará. More details to follow.
Please share widely!
Tx to hosts: Goeldi Museum & Federal Univ. of Pará. More details to follow.
Please share widely!
February 11, 2026 at 6:01 PM
The International Society for Hunter-Gatherer Research are delighted to announce that CHAGS 14 will take place in Belém, Brazil Mon 12 - Fri 16 July 2027. Events/trips immediately before/afterwards.
Tx to hosts: Goeldi Museum & Federal Univ. of Pará. More details to follow.
Please share widely!
Tx to hosts: Goeldi Museum & Federal Univ. of Pará. More details to follow.
Please share widely!
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A new podcast interview by @ilarimakela.bsky.social with Richard B. Lee about Man the Hunter! Should be fascinating.
onhumans.substack.com/p/the-origin...
onhumans.substack.com/p/the-origin...
The Original Affluent Society? Lessons from 60-Years of "Man the Hunter" Research
To mark the 60th anniversary of the 1966 'Man the Hunter' symposium, On Humans is proud to publish the first-ever podcast interview with Richard B. Lee.
onhumans.substack.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:03 PM
A new podcast interview by @ilarimakela.bsky.social with Richard B. Lee about Man the Hunter! Should be fascinating.
onhumans.substack.com/p/the-origin...
onhumans.substack.com/p/the-origin...
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Just the blurry 28.8% illuminated waning crescent at 3.38 AM (UTC+7) on Thursday.
February 11, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Just the blurry 28.8% illuminated waning crescent at 3.38 AM (UTC+7) on Thursday.
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I feel I could just walk into this peaceful scene of nature ~19th century Russian painter Isaac Levitan’s Birch Forest (1885)
February 12, 2026 at 7:43 AM
I feel I could just walk into this peaceful scene of nature ~19th century Russian painter Isaac Levitan’s Birch Forest (1885)
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Tues Feb 17, 18:30 (UTC London)
Camilla Power with the London Menstrual Hut
Lunar New Year: Why are the world's religions run by the Moon?
All welcome
LIVE in Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak
Camilla Power with the London Menstrual Hut
Lunar New Year: Why are the world's religions run by the Moon?
All welcome
LIVE in Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak
February 11, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Tues Feb 17, 18:30 (UTC London)
Camilla Power with the London Menstrual Hut
Lunar New Year: Why are the world's religions run by the Moon?
All welcome
LIVE in Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak
Camilla Power with the London Menstrual Hut
Lunar New Year: Why are the world's religions run by the Moon?
All welcome
LIVE in Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak
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RE: https://mas.to/@therightarticle/116054056750919493
The treatment of the Palestine Action six has been utterly disgusting, at last acquitted at terrible cost.
I'm one of those 2700 sign holding 'terrorists' waiting to see if we'll come to trial.
The treatment of the Palestine Action six has been utterly disgusting, at last acquitted at terrible cost.
I'm one of those 2700 sign holding 'terrorists' waiting to see if we'll come to trial.
mas.to
February 11, 2026 at 9:18 PM
RE: https://mas.to/@therightarticle/116054056750919493
The treatment of the Palestine Action six has been utterly disgusting, at last acquitted at terrible cost.
I'm one of those 2700 sign holding 'terrorists' waiting to see if we'll come to trial.
The treatment of the Palestine Action six has been utterly disgusting, at last acquitted at terrible cost.
I'm one of those 2700 sign holding 'terrorists' waiting to see if we'll come to trial.
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RE: https://c.im/@RadicalAnthro/116041950881280490
A very nice review here from Yasha Levine
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/noam-chomskys-split-personality/
A very nice review here from Yasha Levine
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/noam-chomskys-split-personality/
Another short, sharp version of The Two Chomskys on Novara Media
https://novaramedia.com/2026/02/09/there-are-two-noam-chomskys-the-one-you-love-and-the-one-that-was-friends-with-jeffrey-epstein/
https://novaramedia.com/2026/02/09/there-are-two-noam-chomskys-the-one-you-love-and-the-one-that-was-friends-with-jeffrey-epstein/
novaramedia.com
February 11, 2026 at 6:31 PM
RE: https://c.im/@RadicalAnthro/116041950881280490
A very nice review here from Yasha Levine
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/noam-chomskys-split-personality/
A very nice review here from Yasha Levine
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/noam-chomskys-split-personality/
'Representing shared traditionally forager lifestyles and click-speaking languages, we identify San and Damara as separate phylogenetic lineages, contributing two admixture waves to Nama.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A catalogue of early diverged contemporary human genome variation reveals distinct Khoe-San populations - Nature Communications
By generating whole genomes of 150 participants representing 12 Khoe-San click-speaking groups, the authors, reveal over 1.3 million unknown DNA variants, distinct San and here described Damara geneti...
www.nature.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:22 PM
'Representing shared traditionally forager lifestyles and click-speaking languages, we identify San and Damara as separate phylogenetic lineages, contributing two admixture waves to Nama.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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📢 New Paper 🚨
Hadza food-sharing is egalitarian, yet offers in giving games have never matched the equitable redistribution seen in real life.
In this study, we allowed people to give *or* take. Lifelike equitable distributions only appeared when people took from peers in surplus.
bit.ly/4kvLOwA
Hadza food-sharing is egalitarian, yet offers in giving games have never matched the equitable redistribution seen in real life.
In this study, we allowed people to give *or* take. Lifelike equitable distributions only appeared when people took from peers in surplus.
bit.ly/4kvLOwA
The “I” in egalitarianism: Hadza hunter-gatherers averse to inequality primarily when personally unfavorable
Abstract. Many economists contend that humans have strong, universal, other-regarding equality preferences with deep evolutionary roots. Indeed, many hunte
academic.oup.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:23 PM
📢 New Paper 🚨
Hadza food-sharing is egalitarian, yet offers in giving games have never matched the equitable redistribution seen in real life.
In this study, we allowed people to give *or* take. Lifelike equitable distributions only appeared when people took from peers in surplus.
bit.ly/4kvLOwA
Hadza food-sharing is egalitarian, yet offers in giving games have never matched the equitable redistribution seen in real life.
In this study, we allowed people to give *or* take. Lifelike equitable distributions only appeared when people took from peers in surplus.
bit.ly/4kvLOwA
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AI depictions of Neanderthals here
(But it is standard to just show men in the Middle Pleistocene. Not just Neanderthals. I boycott such stupid material)
archaeologymag.com/2026/02/stud...
(But it is standard to just show men in the Middle Pleistocene. Not just Neanderthals. I boycott such stupid material)
archaeologymag.com/2026/02/stud...
Study of AI generated Neanderthal scenes reveals major gaps with modern archaeological research
AI-generated Neanderthal images and text often conflict with modern archaeological research, showing outdated and biased portrayals.
archaeologymag.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:16 PM
AI depictions of Neanderthals here
(But it is standard to just show men in the Middle Pleistocene. Not just Neanderthals. I boycott such stupid material)
archaeologymag.com/2026/02/stud...
(But it is standard to just show men in the Middle Pleistocene. Not just Neanderthals. I boycott such stupid material)
archaeologymag.com/2026/02/stud...
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AI problems!
'Many pictures showed Neanderthals with heavy body hair, bent posture, and ape-like faces. These traits match reconstructions from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Current research shows a more human body form and posture. Women and children appeared rarely in the […]
'Many pictures showed Neanderthals with heavy body hair, bent posture, and ape-like faces. These traits match reconstructions from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Current research shows a more human body form and posture. Women and children appeared rarely in the […]
Original post on c.im
c.im
February 11, 2026 at 1:02 PM
AI problems!
'Many pictures showed Neanderthals with heavy body hair, bent posture, and ape-like faces. These traits match reconstructions from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Current research shows a more human body form and posture. Women and children appeared rarely in the […]
'Many pictures showed Neanderthals with heavy body hair, bent posture, and ape-like faces. These traits match reconstructions from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Current research shows a more human body form and posture. Women and children appeared rarely in the […]
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Possible reproductive problems that might have contributed to #neanderthal 'extinction': Pre-eclampsia and #eclampsia, which is unique to very large-brained #humans.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165037826000215
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165037826000215
February 11, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Possible reproductive problems that might have contributed to #neanderthal 'extinction': Pre-eclampsia and #eclampsia, which is unique to very large-brained #humans.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165037826000215
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165037826000215
Lunar New Year, eve of Ramadan, Pancake Day!
The Dark Moon next Tuesday is organising religious festivity of billions of people. Why?
#anthropology #religion #evolution #menstrualhut
The Dark Moon next Tuesday is organising religious festivity of billions of people. Why?
#anthropology #religion #evolution #menstrualhut
Tues Feb 17, 18:30 (UTC London)
Camilla Power with the London Menstrual Hut
Lunar New Year: Why are the world's religions run by the Moon?
All welcome
LIVE in Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak
Camilla Power with the London Menstrual Hut
Lunar New Year: Why are the world's religions run by the Moon?
All welcome
LIVE in Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak
February 11, 2026 at 10:02 AM
Lunar New Year, eve of Ramadan, Pancake Day!
The Dark Moon next Tuesday is organising religious festivity of billions of people. Why?
#anthropology #religion #evolution #menstrualhut
The Dark Moon next Tuesday is organising religious festivity of billions of people. Why?
#anthropology #religion #evolution #menstrualhut
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The 37.3% waning crescent in Scorpio on Wednesday at 4.38 AM (UTC+7).
February 10, 2026 at 10:45 PM
The 37.3% waning crescent in Scorpio on Wednesday at 4.38 AM (UTC+7).
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TONIGHT's session on Chhaupadi in Nepal with Stefanie Lotter
Tues Feb 10, 18:30 (UTC London)
Stefanie Lotter
Huts as heritage: what role does an architectural concept play in practice of Nepali menstrual exclusion?
All welcome
LIVE in Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak
Stefanie Lotter
Huts as heritage: what role does an architectural concept play in practice of Nepali menstrual exclusion?
All welcome
LIVE in Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak
February 10, 2026 at 8:23 AM
TONIGHT's session on Chhaupadi in Nepal with Stefanie Lotter
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Thrilled to share our latest paper, out now in Science Advances! We explored the development of cooperative behaviors — fairness, trustworthiness, forgiveness, & honesty — across five societies, culturally contextualizing them & seeing how they correlate. (1/5) www.science.org/doi/full/10....
February 7, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Thrilled to share our latest paper, out now in Science Advances! We explored the development of cooperative behaviors — fairness, trustworthiness, forgiveness, & honesty — across five societies, culturally contextualizing them & seeing how they correlate. (1/5) www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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Very excited that this paper is out!
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Led by the fabulous @dorsaamir.bsky.social with invaluable contributions from many awesome collaborators.
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Led by the fabulous @dorsaamir.bsky.social with invaluable contributions from many awesome collaborators.
The emergence of cooperative behaviors, norms, and strategies across five diverse societies
Children’s cooperative behaviors and norms develop along distinct cultural pathways shaped by local norms.
www.science.org
February 6, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Very excited that this paper is out!
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Led by the fabulous @dorsaamir.bsky.social with invaluable contributions from many awesome collaborators.
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Led by the fabulous @dorsaamir.bsky.social with invaluable contributions from many awesome collaborators.
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🧶 From 12 January, the #ICJ will hear #Gambia vs #Myanmar rgd. the #Rohingya issue. The highest court of the #UN dismissed Myanmar‘s prelim. objections in 2022 (see article). The issue at stake: did M. violate the UN #genocide convention? I will follow the hearings closely
apnews.com/article/afri...
apnews.com/article/afri...
UN court rejects Myanmar claims, will hear Rohingya case
Judges at the United Nations’ highest court have dismissed preliminary objections by Myanmar to a case alleging the Southeast Asian nation is responsible for genocide against the Rohingya ethnic minor...
apnews.com
January 11, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, has defended the actions of police at a rally against Herzog’s visit, after video footage emerged showing officers repeatedly punching a number of protesters.
NSW police punch person multiple times during Sydney anti-Herzog protest – video
Police said 27 people were arrested and a number of protesters were treated after being pepper-sprayed. According to police, 10 officers were ‘assaulted’ but none of those assaults were serious
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:21 AM
New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, has defended the actions of police at a rally against Herzog’s visit, after video footage emerged showing officers repeatedly punching a number of protesters.
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Policymakers met to advance the $2.5B Belém Call to Action to protect the Congo Basin.
Priorities include direct community funding, stronger laws and clear financing — critical for a rainforest long threatened by deforestation and chronic underfunding.
Priorities include direct community funding, stronger laws and clear financing — critical for a rainforest long threatened by deforestation and chronic underfunding.
What’s next for the major pledge to halt & reverse Congo Basin deforestation?
Copince Ngoma, a member of the Bakouele Indigenous community, has relied on the lush green Congo Basin rainforest his whole life. His village’s forests, located in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s…
news.mongabay.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Policymakers met to advance the $2.5B Belém Call to Action to protect the Congo Basin.
Priorities include direct community funding, stronger laws and clear financing — critical for a rainforest long threatened by deforestation and chronic underfunding.
Priorities include direct community funding, stronger laws and clear financing — critical for a rainforest long threatened by deforestation and chronic underfunding.
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New excavations at the Grotta Guattari, just south of Rome, have yielded beautiful new Neanderthal fossils. They may add a lot to our knowledge of how Neanderthals maintained their populations as they fled the advance of the ice sheets.
www.johnhawks.net/p/a-neandert...
www.johnhawks.net/p/a-neandert...
A Neanderthal time capsule from Grotta Guattari
Excavations of a new chamber reveal an ancient floor with more than a dozen new Neanderthal fossil remains.
www.johnhawks.net
February 9, 2026 at 2:22 PM
New excavations at the Grotta Guattari, just south of Rome, have yielded beautiful new Neanderthal fossils. They may add a lot to our knowledge of how Neanderthals maintained their populations as they fled the advance of the ice sheets.
www.johnhawks.net/p/a-neandert...
www.johnhawks.net/p/a-neandert...