🚨 🐍 Our new paper on the consequences men face when countering patriarchal norms in rural Tanzania 🐍.🚨

We carried out focus groups and detailed interviews with a whopping 172 women and men about their perceptions of men who support women's empowerment... 📝 1/5

"Modeling Uncertainty around Free-list Cultural Salience Scores" by @rcc-au.bsky.social's @djsmith90.bsky.social and @bgpurzycki.bsky.social OnlineFirst up now at Field Methods journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #AnthroTools #quantethnography

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 😊

Mary Shenk presented at the Evolutionary Demography Society conference in Oxford today, showing intriguing (and opposite) associations between women's fertility and allocare from either grandparents or children

New paper from the team, led by Radim Chvaja:

The role of parental religiosity in shaping paternal investment: evidence from Bangladesh and India

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New paper led by @anushe.bsky.social on alloparenting in Tanzania. Child care assistance surely benefits child health, but we find little evidence that specific care arrangements are more resilient than others.

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Interested in examining culture, cultural models, and what people think, know, and believe? New book from RCC’s @bgpurzycki.bsky.social coming soon as part of Sage’s “Little Green Book” series!

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Need To Know Basis is launched ! The team is now working on data collection in the Farafenni region of The Gambia. Thank you to the team for all their work in the field and for their sensitivity asking men and women about information sharing and FGC!

“Social-science journals have a key role to play: they must prioritize transparency to improve the credibility and verifiability of published research” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Also follow PI @johnhshaver.bsky.social as well as @lspake.bsky.social & @anushe.bsky.social, without whom that data would not exist! Here's a paper led by Laure and Anushé describing the process of data collection in our 5 main locations royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

We are 'The Evolutionary Dynamics of Religion, Family Size and Child Success' project, an international team investigating how religion impacts fertility and child wellbeing. Check out our website for more info, and follow us for updates on our activities 💙
evolutionarydemographyofreligion.org

Our project on the evolutionary dynamics of religion, family size and child success is now on bluesky 👇 Follow for updates on our cross-cultural research, which is getting to a particularly exciting stage of paper-writing 😊 (after a long slog of data collection in 6 countries!)

The evolutionary demography of religion project is on bluesky! Give it a follow for content about religion, cooperation and prosociality, allomothering, and maternal and child outcomes 👇

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Special issue of American Journal of Human Biology on 'The Influences of Religion and Spirituality on Human Biology' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Check out this episode of SoS! @johnhshaver.bsky.social speaks about his research and one of the papers from the Evolutionary Demography of Religion project: m.soundcloud.com/humanbiology...

We all know that – alongside global warming, Elon Musk, Vladimir Putin and other evils – selection bias is one of the largest threats to humanity*

But how bad exactly is selection bias?

This is what we aimed to explore in our recent paper: doi.org/10.1080/2153...

*Perhaps a slight exaggeration…

Blog from @johnhshaver.bsky.social @lspake.bsky.social & Radim Chvaja about our recent paper on associations between religiosity, fertility and childcare from fathers and others in the Gambia. Nice, clear summary of a complex set of analyses 😊

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