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Raymond Hames

@rayhames.bsky.social

Evolutionary anthropologists (University of Nebraska - Lincoln) with interest in labor and food exchanges, small scale societies, war, wildlife conservation, marriage
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Thought of the day: scientific journals exploit reviewers. It takes me about half-a-day of work to do a good review and sometimes more with SOM's. A tiny step in the right direction would be to compensate reviewers with a gratis two year subscription to the journal. Thoughts?
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Our failure to reproduce Anderson et al (2023), The Myth of Man the Hunter, is now published: 🧪 authors.elsevier.com/c/1j2qf3tz49...
In The Myth of Man the Hunter, Anderson et al 2023 claimed to discover that women hunt in 79% of hunter-gatherer societies. Did hunter-gatherer researchers get it wrong? In an effort lead by @vivek123.bsky.social, we attempted to reproduce their study. These are the fatal flaws we found🧪 (1/n)
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Our article on women and hunting is now in press and online. Free views for the next 50 days. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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More on woman the hunter Martin,Melanie, AlejandraNuñezdelaMora, ClaudiaValeggia,and AmandaVeile.2024.“Can women hunt?Yes. Did women contribute much to human evolution through endurance hunting? Probably not.” American Anthropologist1–5. doi.org/10.1111/aman...
Can women hunt? Yes. Did women contribute much to human evolution through endurance hunting? Probably not.doi.org Click on the article title to read more.
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Love this admonition "It is also imperative to stop assigning a starring role to each new fossil discovery to fit evolutionary scenarios that are not based on testable hypotheses." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Fossil apes and human evolutionwww.science.org A Review describes the unique and varied morphologies in fossil and modern apes, including humans.
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G. Purzycki has put out a call for applications to support up to two field seasons of support for a focused, 3-year project (ending Dec. 2026) on the relationship between religion, cooperation, and social ecology. For details go here and click on Call for Field Researchers pure.au.dk/portal/en/pr...
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Ben Purzycki is looking for a postdoc (3-years) with quant./methods skills to help with a big cross-cultural project on small-scale religions and cooperation/coordination. Details in the link below, deadline is 25 Feb. international.au.dk/about/profil...
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My biographical memoir of Napoleon Chagnon is now up" www.nasonline.org/publications...
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Someone Twitter posted this yesterday. The common pattern is to compare human social patterns to animals but this reverses showing how human clans may be models of animal social organization Whitehead, "Sperm whale clans and human societies." Royal Society Open Science 11, no. 1 (2024)
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I just received page proofs and it is not starting well.
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An important critique of "Woman the Hunter" now out at osf.io/preprints/os... And there is more to come!
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Interesting account of foraging specialists in Borneo and their isolation and relationship to settled groups as well as how they are similar to others (Agta, Batek, etc.) in SE Asia www.nytimes.com/2023/09/19/s...
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