CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@ncrav no need to share

Serious Chinese contributions to humanity

China to help Cuba with solar energy amid US oil blockade and total power outage

Beijing will ‘intensify its support’ to Havana after around 10.9 million people were left without power amid an ongoing energy crisis.

South China Morning Post (www.scmp.com)

@ncrav oh Hoppy Birthday, Lua! Wot a cake! How much did u eat?

Welsh people are "foreign speakers"? Er, no, you anglo-saxon shite, they would be I-N-D-I-G-E-N-O-U-S...

These knob heads!

@ADailyViolet sure thing! That's why he sends me out every morning in the dew!

Yes @arisummerland it's his second breakfast!

#BundaySunday
Elderbun Jack is intent on fresh spring forage, sampling hawthorn, hazel, willow, pear buds, yarrow and dandies.

#RadicalAnthropologyRabbits
#RabbitsofMastodon

@fluffykontbiscuits it is on Tuesdays, next Tues Mar 10.

We always do Tuesday evening
Here is the UCL listing
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/social-historical-sciences/anthropology/events/anthropology-research-seminars/radical-anthropology-seminars

@fluffykontbiscuits
Invite link
https://ucl.zoom.us/j/95285541412?pwd=LjI5yIagplvPmFXVwSnLbDbV1xUiep.1

@fluffykontbiscuits yes, it says All welcome. Come along or join on ZOOM!

@lienrag sorry we do have serious archaeological evidence on ritual practice in the African Middle Stone Age ochre record, we do have serious behavioural ecology models of what the practice entailed. It's not just about African h-gs but they do teach us more than anyone can about the social contexts for emergence of language itself.

Have you have even attended a single one of our talks? Then maybe argue. But make sure you've read Sarah Hrdy's 'Mothers and others' first.

Chris Knight is the founder of the Radical Anthropology Group and author of Blood Relations: Menstruation and the origins of culture (1991).

Jerome Lewis lectures in Social Anthropology at University College London.

they show how early human societies' unique cooperative childcare, ritualized practices and egalitarian politics was fundamental to language emergence.

language emerged not just for practical communication but through dramatic, shared cultural performances fostering deep trust and symbolic understanding, a shift from primate dominance to shared humanity.

Anthropologists Chris Knight and Jerome Lewis talk about their forthcoming book 'The Revolutionary Origins of Language' (Yale UP 2026). Drawing on primatology, linguistics, evolutionary theory, biological and social anthropology, in particular of existing central African hunter-gatherer societies,

TONIGHT
Free Fediscience! Please boost!

Tues Mar 10, 18:30 (UTC London)
Chris Knight and Jerome Lewis
The Revolutionary Origins of Language

All welcome
LIVE in Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak

Good look for the genocidal imperialist #Churchill

Not everyone agrees since a bit speculative
(But this idea could link up with the x-chromosome Neanderthal deserts?)
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/neanderthals/research-group-claims-preeclampsia-doomed-the-neanderthals-but-experts-say-its-just-a-thought-experiment

@pvonhellermannn oh this is so beautiful! A chunk of hope! She sluiced in! Happy this morning

Possible reproductive problems that might have contributed to #Neanderthal 'extinction': Pre-eclampsia and #eclampsia, which is unique to very large-brained #humans.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165037826000215