New preprint 🚨 Traditionally, the Hadza lived as mobile hunter-gatherers, moving camps several times per year. Today this is changing - but why? We show that subsistence transition offers multiple pathways to food security. Families who move less are *substantially* more food secure.

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🧪🦣 Rapid share* - new pre-prints ID-ing more Penghu remains as #Denisovan: v large leg bones, 14C date c 45 Ka, & isotopes suggesting C4 diet www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... *have not read yet as I'm currently working on later prehistory #Matriarcha chapters!

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🚨 New paper out in @natcomms.nature.com! We used bony labyrinth morphology to reconstruct over 40,000 years of human population history in northeastern Africa, a region where ancient DNA is almost entirely unavailable. A thread 🧵 ⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/11

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It's not the top 1% or the top 5% or the top 10%. You have to tax the top 70% to pay for the social democracy we need. I make $95k and my taxes should be higher. Once again, with feeling: every nation with universal health care levies a VAT. Everyone contributes something. Yes, that means you.

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Whenever I ask basic "so what is X, and what is relationship to Y?" questions in other settings I either come off as an asshole or a genius. Basic things first year anthro students wouldn't be caught dead not knowing.

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