Brenna Hassett
@brennawalks
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archaeolology, anthropology, and other shiny things - also 1/4 of Team @trowelblazers. Dirty Science @CosmicShambles Agent @elladkahn https://t.co/svbEFfpBfi
Out standing in my field
Joined August 2009
If you want to know more about just how monogamous monkeys can be, why grandmothers are so suspicious, and what on earth we are doing as a species taking so long to grow up, then feel free to preorder ;).
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RT @Humanists_UK: Why have humans evolved to have longer childhoods compared to other living creatures? 🤔 🧠. Nearly a quarter of our lives….
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RT @ancientchildren: Check this out: Some evolution of childhood on pages 10+ with quotes from the wonderful @brennawalks and me. https:/….
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RT @tvukzone: Trailer released and launch date confirmed for new drama #Curfew, starring Sarah Parish, Mandip Gill and Alexandra Burke. Mor….
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New six-part UK drama Curfew, produced by Vertigo Films, lands Thursday 10th October on Paramount+ UK. Curfew | Official Trailer | Paramount+ UK & IrelandThe crime thriller is set in a society where...
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This was brilliant fun. I may have accidentally broken Greg, but that’s more of a British Neolithic thing than me really ;).
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RT @LeMoustier: A very wonderful day in Cambridge!.(three intersecting projects come together. )
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Anyway, another day, another non-zero number of cicadas on my person. Woohoo fieldwork.
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Mostly because I like this new @SAPIENS_org quiz a LOT
sapiens.org
We humans have a large and ancient family tree. Take this quiz to find out which relative you are most alike.
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Well I’m back to running long code so rather than optimise it I guess I could tweet.
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RT @johnhawks: Great article about the role of play in human evolution by @brennawalks : . “Perhaps what most stands out is our ability to….
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RT @LAProgressive: What Play Tells Us About Human Evolution?. Adult play tends to be social and to happen in speci….
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RT @ChrisStringer65: What does play tell us about human evolution? via @thestarkenya.
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The muddle in the middle 🤯.
@aylwyn_scally @richard_durbin In summary, here is a (simplified) diagram of human evolutionary history, with the contributions from cobraa highlighted in red.
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love the quote they've gone with in this @newscientist piece on the long human childhood -- my best and most unfollowable evolutionary parenting advice: stop freaking out 😅
newscientist.com
Why childhood is so protracted has long been mysterious, now a spate of archaeological discoveries suggest an intriguing explanation
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First year of teaching @UCLanArchAnth done and dusted. Capped it off with some glorious park phenomenology w the history of archaeological thought class . ** bows **. **** collapses ****
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In what other country would you pay £200 to sit on the floor of a train. Not Italy where the profit from avanti actually goes one guesses
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Sorry to hear Chris Tilley passed. I don’t know if it means it’s time for this song or not
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