We think this attack on understanding #humanorigins by Stefanos #Geroulanos is junk. Almost everything about it is wrong.
The idea that our bodies, minds and emotions are only affected by the last 5000 years is profoundly stupid -- once again social scientists trying to pretend #evolution doesn't exist (Am looking at #Graeber/Wengrow there).
Take this bit 🤦:
'But in reality, our bodies, our economic systems, our social relations, our family relations, and our politics have very little to do with this longer history [=species life] and a great deal to do with the much shorter one [=farming/patriarchy]'
This is a real mashup: our bodies, minds, hearts and souls have been shaped through thousands on thousands of generations of egalitarian nomadic lifestyle -- we need to know about that to challenge the constraints of heinous inequality in emerging class societies. Yes these shifted gender, economic and social relations of the past 5000 years. But we don't lose the cognitive and emotional skill set of being human overnight, or even in a few thousand years of warfare and patriarchy..
He notado que los sistemas de autenticación de muchas plataformas de correo en navegador terminan generando altos niveles de angustia y frustración a personas de edad avanzada.
Si esa persona #TeImporta, sientes con ellos esa angustia 😢
Ayudemos, con su consentimiento, a incrementar su acervo digital evitando experimentar esa frustración.
Switched from @thunderbird to #Evolution because of inconsistencies in the reply buttons in TB. Some reply buttons in TB insert signatures and others do not. For the record my signature is two short lines of plain text.
@archos@sesivany
Tady s vámi souhlasím, obě tyhle appky nejsou ideální z vícero důvodu (i kvůli tomu že jsou psané "postaru"). Na email je ve vývoji https://apps.kde.org/merkuro.mail/ (v rámci projektu Merkuro by měli být nahrazeny i další 'office' věci, např. starý taky překombinovaný Kalendar).
That's an amazing photo and it fits the article perfectly. I wonder what it would be like to have a tree that was made just for you and gave you cupcakes and nice condominium apartments?
... competing with wing loss in flies (flightlessness), at 25 events counted to date. Can't find an up to date citation; a neat phylogenetic tree of #Diptera marking all the apomorphic events was shown to me by Darren Williams. There's Wagner & Liebherr 1992 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/016953479290047F listing 22 insect orders with flightless species: almost all of them have species with secondary wing loss.
My favorite wingless insect is not a fly but a whole family of wasps: the velvet ants. Here, an American one. Note only females are wingless. The power of their sting is also the stuff of legend.
If you or someone you know might be interested in applying for a PhD studentship with me, related to cancer evolution, then please get in touch ASAP. The studentship would cover four years of stipend plus UK tuition fees (non-UK citizens would need to cover additional fees). #mathonco#Evolution#EvolutionaryBiology
This is open access!
"The evosystem can become a centerpiece for a redefined evolutionary science, that is, evolutionary studies, that apprehends through a single framework the variety of evolutionary processes that lie at various scales." #evolution#evosystem
Time to take a closer look at the textures of #ants (and some other insects) and the fantastic variation of the exoskeleton.
It'd be so neat to model these & 3D print them at a larger scale. These textures are all optimized through millions of years of #evolution to make insects strong, hygienic, stealthy, hard to attack... and who knows what else. So much to learn from them!
So I go looking for some of the textures and they aren't ALL ants. Some are bees and other insects. That's probably why 37 stood out. I've never seen a texture like that on an ant. (It's a carpenter bee!)
@futurebird when i was working with ants under the dissection scope (sorry... for mounting and identification. mixed feelings about smothering the poor kids) i SO wanted to make paintings of them, a few feet wide!
you got a scope? you can put some honey under the scope and they can come and drink and you can look at em.
'Over the past decade, increasing evidence suggests artistic expression emerged much earlier in human evolution than scientists once thought, and it's reshaping our understanding of the cognitive abilities of archaic humans, such as Neanderthals and earlier hominins.'
Danach #Ozeane - auch Erstpartie. Und obwohl ich das zugrunde liegende #Evolution, schon ein wenig kannte, krachend verloren. Hat Vertiefungspotenzial, wir haben erstmal nur die abgespeckte Einstiegsversion gespielt. Die Acryl-Token der Deluxe-Version finde ich übrigens hässlicher als die originalen Papp-Token. Aber die Stoffsäckchen sind eine gute Alternative zu den lächerlich kleinen Sichtschirmen.
