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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
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Our Spring Term talks
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Radical Anthropology seminars
Radical Anthropology brings indigenous rights activists, environmentalists, feminists and others striving for a better world together with people of all ages who just want to learn about anthropology.
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mattpope.bsky.social
May you have the energy of these fabulous Ice Age beasts as you enter the lunar New Year of the Horse! 🦣🐎
Monochrome horse heads looking left on a cave wall
February 16, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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TOMORROW EVENING 🌑
Lunar New Year, eve of Ramadan, Pancake Day!

The Dark Moon is organising religious festivity of billions of people. Why?

#anthropology #religion #evolution #menstrualhut
radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 5d
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
Ancient hunter-gatherer religious iconography a) 'Venus' of Laussel, Dordogne, France; b) potent female 'menstrual' initiate, Mutoko, Zimbabwe. Both hold crescent-shaped ritual objects.
February 16, 2026 at 8:34 AM
The Congo River Basin is not only the 'lungs of Africa' but actually the world, given extraordinary biodiversity and presence of mature growth. Its survival is critical for the planet.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
February 16, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Handy discussion of 'ghost lineages',
'an extinct population that has left no fossils but whose traces can still be detected in the genomes of many living things, including humans and other primates'
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
February 16, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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marwellaspaceart.bsky.social
People in town, busy with CNY celebration and preparing for Ramadhan.

Me: New moon + clear sky = Milky Way 🌌
February 16, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Collection of recordings here of cross-cultural #menarcheal experience
February 16, 2026 at 9:22 AM
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radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy
Very interesting event at UCL later today on #Inuit #adolescent health in Nunavut. With our friend Hugh Brody and Polina Anang.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-global-mental-health-network-event-navigating-inuit-youth-wellbeing-tickets-1980463883789
UCL Global Mental Health Network event: Navigating Inuit Youth Wellbeing
A Conversation with Hugh Brody and Dr. Polina Anang
www.eventbrite.co.uk
February 16, 2026 at 8:56 AM
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whoa-magic.lol
"It is the first time anywhere in the world that an insect species receives this kind of legal status."

www.ecoticias.com/en/for-the-f....

#bees
For the first time in global legal history, a country has recognized the legal rights of insects, and it is the stingless bees of the Peruvian Amazon that are taking the first step toward a new model ...
Peru just made history: stingless bees in the Amazon now have legal rights, letting communities sue to defend hives and habitat.
www.ecoticias.com
February 15, 2026 at 1:44 PM
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katzyna.bsky.social
This recognition means a great deal as does being nominated by colleagues I respect. May we make inroads towards human-wildlife coexistence, land stewardship, retention of women in science, reimagined borders that uphold dignity & connectivity. scientistswarning.forestry.oregonstate.edu/AWS_award
AWS Planet Earth Award | Alliance of World Scientists
scientistswarning.forestry.oregonstate.edu
February 15, 2026 at 8:20 PM
TOMORROW EVENING 🌑
Lunar New Year, eve of Ramadan, Pancake Day!

The Dark Moon is organising religious festivity of billions of people. Why?

#anthropology #religion #evolution #menstrualhut
radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 5d
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
Ancient hunter-gatherer religious iconography a) 'Venus' of Laussel, Dordogne, France; b) potent female 'menstrual' initiate, Mutoko, Zimbabwe. Both hold crescent-shaped ritual objects.
February 16, 2026 at 8:34 AM
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mongabay.com
Twenty-nine banks have ruled out financing the Papua LNG project in Papua New Guinea over climate and human rights concerns.

Project lead TotalEnergies says it will proceed anyway.
Banks decline to finance LNG project in Papua New Guinea
A total of Twenty-nine international banks and export credit agencies have ruled out financing a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Papua New Guinea, citing climate, environmental and human…
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February 14, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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Lunar New Year, eve of Ramadan, Pancake Day!

The Dark Moon this Tuesday is organising religious festivity of billions of people. Why?

#anthropology #religion #evolution #menstrualhut
radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 5d
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
Ancient hunter-gatherer religious iconography a) 'Venus' of Laussel, Dordogne, France; b) potent female 'menstrual' initiate, Mutoko, Zimbabwe. Both hold crescent-shaped ritual objects.
February 14, 2026 at 8:15 AM
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bonkski.bsky.social
Check out both of Barbara's posts and all 8 photos from this year's political carnival in Germany!🤩 #Carnival #Germany #PoliticalCarnival #Trump #Putin #Zelensky #Musk #AfD
February 14, 2026 at 12:12 PM
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trending-pt.bsky.social
Itens dos últimos 30 minutos 🧭:

1. Carnaval
2. Tarô 🆕
3. #Globeleza ⬆
4. Desfile
5. Mágico 🆕
6. Samba
7. Mojirê 🆕
8. Lodê 🆕
9. Elegbará 🆕
10. Coach 🆕

Anúncio: @terraprotege.bsky.social.
February 15, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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mongabay.com
A Brazilian court sentenced a key illegal mining financier to 22+ years for crimes in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory.

The ruling follows years of gold mining that brought mercury contamination, disease and child deaths to Yanomami communities.
Brazil mining boss sentenced for illegal gold operation on Indigenous land
A Brazilian federal court has sentenced a key financier to more than 22 years in prison. He was found guilty of leading an illegal mining operation in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory, a huge…
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February 14, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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robertosaezm.bsky.social
En 2015 se publicaron los 47 dientes de la cueva Fuyan en Daoxian (sur de China) con una datación de 80-120 ka.
Presencia sorprendentemente antigua de Homo sapiens fuera de África.
Pues bien, nuevas dataciones con series de uranio dan fechas todavía más antiguas: ¡130-230 ka!
February 14, 2026 at 7:14 AM
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radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy
Super interesting if this holds up!
'New U-Th dating from Fuyan Cave, southern China, places Daoxian Homo sapiens fossils at 230–130 ka.
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This finding suggests that the dispersal of modern humans into East Asia should be earlier than 130 ka.
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The results suggest an earlier "Out of Africa" […]
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February 15, 2026 at 8:49 AM
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edhagen.net
A much-needed critique of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES) as applied to human evolution, by @evoroseman.bsky.social and Ben Auerbach (2026).

Evolving a Field: Can Evolutionary Theory Provide What the Study of Human Evolution Requires? 🧪 #BioAnth
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
ABSTRACT The extended evolutionary synthesis (EES) is a school of thought that maintains that genetic determination and natural selection are over-emphasized in the study of evolution at the expense of non-genetic inheritance and processes of evolution beyond selection. Its proponents call for the de-emphasis of genetics and the adoption of a broader model of inheritance that includes cultural and epigenetic transgenerational effects and strong adaptive phenotypic plasticity. Presenting itself as a radical alternative to what it claims is a rigid and ossified theoretical orthodoxy, the EES has lately gained considerable traction among scholars of human evolution, and a distinct sub-branch of the EES unique to the biological anthropological study of human evolution has emerged (the EES in human evolution). To date, however, no direct comparison between the EES in human evolution and other contemporary evolutionary approaches has been attempted to evaluate whether the EES in human evolution affords researchers an edge in articulating good questions and structuring research programs to answer them. After reviewing the landscape of evolutionary theory, we evaluate whether the EES in human evolution is capable of delivering the processually pluralistic vision of evolution it has long promised and whether it brings something that the decades-long ongoing synthesis (OS) of evolutionary theory since the modern synthesis does not. We then conduct a head-to-head comparison to evaluate the relative explanatory efficacy of the EES and our preferred OS theoretical framework on several issues of human morphological evolution. We demonstrate that evolutionary perspectives as drawn from the OS have a much more clarifying effect on the investigation of human evolution than their EES-based competitor. Far from being a radical extension of evolutionary thought, the EES in human evolution offers little more than another idiom in which to tell adaptationist stories and triumphalist narr…
February 12, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
Ominous bird valentines.
A collection of six ominous bird valentines set against a background of pink hearts. In the first one, a Canada Goose looks angry and hisses and the text says "Baby, I'll make you fall head over heels if you approach within 10m of my nest." In the second, an American white pelican opens its mouth to eat the reader and the text says "There are plenty of fish in the sea, but I want this one." In the third valentine, a Black Vulture looks suspiciously at the reader and the text says "I will love you until you die. And after that, I'll love you even more." A Southern Cassowary stands proudly against the heart-covered background. The text says "My wattles are red. My head is blue. My deadly reputation has been somewhat overblown, but I'd kill for you." In the fifth valentine, a Northern Giant-Petrel stands open-billed next to a large brown furry object, and the text says "Let's seal the deal by sharing a 3000 kg elephant seal carcass." In panel 6, a happy-looking Bearded Vulture holds a bone in its beak, and the text says "I love every part of you, especially your bones."
February 12, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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edhagen.net
Inspired by the work of @lallailaria.bsky.social, @sheinalew.bsky.social, @jeremykoster.bsky.social & many others, I've simulated hunter-gather family energy balance across the lifespan. If kids contribute, families can (barely) maintain energy balance, but if they don't, it's impossible 🧪 #BioAnth
Plot showing simulated energy balance (production - consumption) across the lifespan of a hunter-gatherer family. Left plot, which includes child food contributions shows simulated trajectories that dip below and then above 0. Right plot, which includes only food produced by the wife and husband, shows chronic energy deficits.
February 12, 2026 at 1:43 AM
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tyamadat.bsky.social
Interested in the evo-devo of the mammalian cerebellum? This review is a must-read!

Really happy to have contributed to this work, led by @marisepp.bsky.social , together with @ioansarr.bsky.social .
marisepp.bsky.social Mari Sepp @marisepp.bsky.social · 4d
How have concerted and mosaic evolutionary mechanisms shaped the expansion of the human cerebellum?

Our review with @tyamadat.bsky.social and @ioansarr.bsky.social available free till March 29:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1ma2wFzn7a...
February 12, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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brunelcce.bsky.social
📣 @brunelpsy.bsky.social and the @culturemindslab.bsky.social with @nicolewen.bsky.social and @loraadair.bsky.social is excited to support Nu Know’s Parent-Teen Summit 2026 at Boxpark Wembley 🧡 📣

🗓 Thursday 2nd April 2026

🔗👇
Nu Know
Working together to navigate adolescence.
nuknow.co.uk
February 12, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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anthrofuentes.bsky.social
Article w/ @mfhansen.bsky.social out and open access. In it we outline key historical patterns and the changes in primatology and the behavioural sciences regarding the concepts of primate culture.
Interested in primatology and culture (and history)? check it out!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The evolution of the concepts of ‘primate culture’ in Western science - Primates
While most scholars across the social and biological sciences acknowledge that human culture is distinctive in the comparative context there is widespread acknowledgment that some form of culture does...
link.springer.com
February 13, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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defendourjuries.bsky.social
Palestine Action Has Defeated the Government: What Happens Next?

Police forces that made arrests under the Palestine Action ban could be hit with a wave of lawsuits following the group’s “monumental victory” in court, legal experts have said.

novaramedia.com/2026/02/13/p...
Palestine Action Has Defeated the Government: What Happens Next? | Harriet Williamson
The group’s proscription as a terrorist organisation was unlawful and ‘disproportionate’, judges have ruled. But the fight isn’t quite over yet. Harriet Williamson reports.
novaramedia.com
February 13, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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marwellaspaceart.bsky.social
The 13% illuminated waning crescent on Saturday at 5 AM (UTC+7).

Happy Valentine's Day, Artemis! ♥️
We will visit you again soon. 🚀🌕
February 13, 2026 at 11:21 PM