Luke Glowacki
@HSB_Lab
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Anthropologist at Boston University. PI Human Systems and Behavior Lab. Co-Director of the Omo Valley Research Project @theOVRP
Nyangatom, Ethiopia
Joined August 2018
The fallout from NAGPRA continues to be unbelievable. No one thinks this is what Congress intended.
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Our underrated superpower is the ability to rewrite our norms at an incredibly rapid rate. Newspaper boys in St. Louis in 1910.
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All human societies make music, and most frequently do it in groups. There are some exceptions where collective music making is rare and we don't have a good understanding of why. Cool paper exploring this question through ethnographic case studies. @RuedenChris
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Humans aren't animals? Come on @ScienceMagazine.
Ants may be the only animal that performs surgical amputations. Learn more: @NewsfromScience #ScienceMagArchives
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Is there anything more incredible than the intricate complexity of life?.
The flagellum motor is biological design of the highest order. The motor hits rotational speeds >1,000 rpm. The basal disk (that purple ring) alone is built from 51 tethered subunits. The tail whips at high torques thanks to interlocking cogs, an axial driveshaft, and propeller.
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Victor Kumar is both the funniest person I follow on Twitter and his Substack is engaging (and humorous). Check it out!
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We should be open to unorthodox arguments but i don't find the argument about honey = cruelty persuasive. Take this paragraph for example. Lots of claims, but little data and argumentation.
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RT @SmartBiology3D: 👀 What does biology *look* like when it's visual-first? Here’s a sneak peek at our Animated Textbooks in action. Visit….
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RT @KathelijneKoops: 📣ATTENTION!!! Two PhD positions on Creativity in Wild Chimpanzees and Bonobos 🤩@snsf_ch @UZH_en @univofstandrews Come….
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Are there any sociologists who think human evolution is important for answering questions in sociology? Who are they? The only one I can think of is @NAChristakis but surely (hopefully) there are others. If you want to help me find them, please repost.
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"In that simple statement is the key to science. It does not make any difference how beautiful your guess is. It does not make any difference how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is—if it disagrees with experiment, it is wrong. That is all there is to it.".
Here is how science works. First, we guess at the nature of reality. "Then we compute the consequences of the guess to see what would be implied if this law that we guessed is right. Then we compare the result of the computation to nature, with experiment or experience, compare.
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It was temporarily derailed hallucinating it was a real person.
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The future is coming. Anthropic lets Claude run a vending machine. It's proof of concept and the results are fascinating, especially the hallucinations. See reply. @AnthropicAI
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Here is how science works. First, we guess at the nature of reality. "Then we compute the consequences of the guess to see what would be implied if this law that we guessed is right. Then we compare the result of the computation to nature, with experiment or experience, compare.
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HGs were originally of key interest because foraging life-ways were thought to reveal important facets about human behavior and social structure in human evolution. There are very few populations in the world today that retain those aspects.
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It's 2025. Can we stop pretending that every rural population that sometimes hunts are hunter-gatherers? Almost all subsistence populations living near uncultivated land sometimes hunts and collects. The key question is whether the primary components of diet are foraged.
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