woodbrian.bsky.social
Professor of anthropology at UCLA. Interested in evolutionary anthropology research, science, travel, music, the world out there. Director of the Hadza Fund.
👤 Joined on 16 November 2024
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@woodbrian.bsky.socialOur new paper is out today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B! How does rapid environmental change reshape human sleep, one of our most fundamental biological processes? 📄: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
Show PostI have a completely different take. This is exactly how we should be using technology --- to enhance our ability to do hard and useful things like recognizing individual monkeys, folding proteins, and solving difficult computational problems.
Show PostExploring autophotography as a quasi-naturalistic observational method. In Evolutionary Anthropology, participant observations are super important - but sometimes, we can't follow people! Autophotography could work as one of the solutions to address these challenges. doi.org/10.1002/evan...
Show PostRead about how animal cultures interact with human cultures and some of our recent work to conserve animal cultures in this fascinating article ->
Show PostHadza hunter-gatherers have high levels of nonambulatory time, similar to industrialized populations. But this time often occurs in postures like squatting. “Active rest” postures require higher levels of lower limb muscle activity than sitting. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... | @woodbrian.bsky.social
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