Vivek V. Venkataraman
@vivek123.bsky.social
Check out our new paper in the journal Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, led by Ian J. Wallace.
"Dampened inflammation and reduced risk of osteoarthritis among non-industrialized societies"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Dampened inflammation and reduced risk of osteoarthritis among non-industrialized societies"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 14, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Check out our new paper in the journal Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, led by Ian J. Wallace.
"Dampened inflammation and reduced risk of osteoarthritis among non-industrialized societies"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Dampened inflammation and reduced risk of osteoarthritis among non-industrialized societies"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Bruce Winterhalder was once asked to share some professional insights.
Here they are:
Here they are:
September 19, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Bruce Winterhalder was once asked to share some professional insights.
Here they are:
Here they are:
Reposted by Vivek V. Venkataraman
From the archive. Societies divide labor by gender and age. A biological anthropologist considers when and why this behavior arose. Read more: www.sapiens.org/biology/labo...
How Allocating Work Aided Our Evolutionary Success
Many societies divide labor by gender and age. A biological anthropologist considers when and why this behavior arose.
www.sapiens.org
September 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
From the archive. Societies divide labor by gender and age. A biological anthropologist considers when and why this behavior arose. Read more: www.sapiens.org/biology/labo...
Reposted by Vivek V. Venkataraman
A great piece on the women's hunting debate by Elena Bridgers that covers some of our work: elenabridgers.substack.com/p/did-women-...
Did Women Hunt in Our Evolutionary Past?
When Western gender ideology gets in the way of good science
elenabridgers.substack.com
September 2, 2025 at 12:51 AM
A great piece on the women's hunting debate by Elena Bridgers that covers some of our work: elenabridgers.substack.com/p/did-women-...
A great piece on the women's hunting debate by Elena Bridgers that covers some of our work: elenabridgers.substack.com/p/did-women-...
Did Women Hunt in Our Evolutionary Past?
When Western gender ideology gets in the way of good science
elenabridgers.substack.com
September 2, 2025 at 12:51 AM
A great piece on the women's hunting debate by Elena Bridgers that covers some of our work: elenabridgers.substack.com/p/did-women-...
Reposted by Vivek V. Venkataraman
My review of Sex is a Spectrum, by Agustín Fuentes 🧪 #BioAnth blog.edhagen.net/posts/2025-0...
Review of Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary by Agustín Fuentes – Grasshoppermouse
Blog posts and talk slides
blog.edhagen.net
August 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM
My review of Sex is a Spectrum, by Agustín Fuentes 🧪 #BioAnth blog.edhagen.net/posts/2025-0...
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Some thoughts on how preferences for #leaders change with our environments:
Leaders for the World We Think We Live In | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ecol...
#LeadSciSky #EvPsych #CultEvol #socialpsyc #BehSci 🧪 @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @psychologytoday.com
Leaders for the World We Think We Live In | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ecol...
#LeadSciSky #EvPsych #CultEvol #socialpsyc #BehSci 🧪 @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @psychologytoday.com
Leaders for the World We Think We Live In
Why do we trust steady hands in some contexts and risk-takers in others? Evolutionary theory reveals how environments shape our shifting choices of leaders.
www.psychologytoday.com
August 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Some thoughts on how preferences for #leaders change with our environments:
Leaders for the World We Think We Live In | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ecol...
#LeadSciSky #EvPsych #CultEvol #socialpsyc #BehSci 🧪 @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @psychologytoday.com
Leaders for the World We Think We Live In | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ecol...
#LeadSciSky #EvPsych #CultEvol #socialpsyc #BehSci 🧪 @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @psychologytoday.com
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Do not accept the premise that education is to blame for abysmal jobs outcomes.
“The fantasy economy's framing of economic inequality… focuses exclusively on education…deflects attention away from decades of public policies and changing business practices that have…contributed to stagnating wages”
“The fantasy economy's framing of economic inequality… focuses exclusively on education…deflects attention away from decades of public policies and changing business practices that have…contributed to stagnating wages”
August 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Do not accept the premise that education is to blame for abysmal jobs outcomes.
“The fantasy economy's framing of economic inequality… focuses exclusively on education…deflects attention away from decades of public policies and changing business practices that have…contributed to stagnating wages”
“The fantasy economy's framing of economic inequality… focuses exclusively on education…deflects attention away from decades of public policies and changing business practices that have…contributed to stagnating wages”
Reposted by Vivek V. Venkataraman
Published two years ago in @science.org:
"Body-based units of measure in cultural evolution"
We looked into how, and why, human societies have measured things with their bodies.
A little thread about the deep ancestry and cross-cultural heritage of measurement:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
"Body-based units of measure in cultural evolution"
We looked into how, and why, human societies have measured things with their bodies.
A little thread about the deep ancestry and cross-cultural heritage of measurement:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Body-based units of measure in cultural evolution
Measurements based on body part length have cognitive and behavioral advantages, which accounts for their widespread and persistent use.
www.science.org
June 1, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Published two years ago in @science.org:
"Body-based units of measure in cultural evolution"
We looked into how, and why, human societies have measured things with their bodies.
A little thread about the deep ancestry and cross-cultural heritage of measurement:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
"Body-based units of measure in cultural evolution"
We looked into how, and why, human societies have measured things with their bodies.
A little thread about the deep ancestry and cross-cultural heritage of measurement:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Vivek V. Venkataraman
I’ve been trying to figure out which scientists in the human evolutionary sciences were directly influenced by Robert Ardrey’s books.
Mostly the answer is a resounding no.
Mostly the answer is a resounding no.
Lewis Wolpert: 'No one working in the social sciences can ignore the
I recently had lunch with John Tooby and Leda Cosmides of the University of California at Santa Barbara. They have become famous for their contributions to evolutionary psychology, and have revolution...
www.independent.co.uk
August 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I’ve been trying to figure out which scientists in the human evolutionary sciences were directly influenced by Robert Ardrey’s books.
Mostly the answer is a resounding no.
Mostly the answer is a resounding no.
I’ve been trying to figure out which scientists in the human evolutionary sciences were directly influenced by Robert Ardrey’s books.
Mostly the answer is a resounding no.
Mostly the answer is a resounding no.
Lewis Wolpert: 'No one working in the social sciences can ignore the
I recently had lunch with John Tooby and Leda Cosmides of the University of California at Santa Barbara. They have become famous for their contributions to evolutionary psychology, and have revolution...
www.independent.co.uk
August 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I’ve been trying to figure out which scientists in the human evolutionary sciences were directly influenced by Robert Ardrey’s books.
Mostly the answer is a resounding no.
Mostly the answer is a resounding no.
Reposted by Vivek V. Venkataraman
From ancient Greece to the Arabic golden age, scholars have been driven by their curiosity to investigate astronomy, history, philosophy, and sundry other disciplines. Is there a structure to that curiosity? Are astronomers as likely to also be historians or to also be philosophers?
August 11, 2025 at 12:05 PM
From ancient Greece to the Arabic golden age, scholars have been driven by their curiosity to investigate astronomy, history, philosophy, and sundry other disciplines. Is there a structure to that curiosity? Are astronomers as likely to also be historians or to also be philosophers?
Reposted by Vivek V. Venkataraman
Changes in diet drove physical evolution in early humans www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Changes in diet drove physical evolution in early humans
A Dartmouth-led study shows that early humans developed a taste for grassy carbohydrate-rich plants 700,000 years before they evolved the ideal teeth to chew the tougher plant fibers efficiently. The ...
www.eurekalert.org
August 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Changes in diet drove physical evolution in early humans www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Reposted by Vivek V. Venkataraman
This is fascinating. It is also evidence in favour of taking biological agency seriously, rather than treating it as an "as if" property.
"Behavior drives morphological change during human evolution"
Our new article is out in @science.org today
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Our new article is out in @science.org today
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
August 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This is fascinating. It is also evidence in favour of taking biological agency seriously, rather than treating it as an "as if" property.
"Behavior drives morphological change during human evolution"
Our new article is out in @science.org today
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Our new article is out in @science.org today
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
July 31, 2025 at 10:02 PM
"Behavior drives morphological change during human evolution"
Our new article is out in @science.org today
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Our new article is out in @science.org today
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Pleased to present our new preprint on sleep and circadian rhythms among the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia.
This is a fascinating system for exploring sleep biology. Lots of variation in light exposure, housing type, and subsistence.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧵 below.
This is a fascinating system for exploring sleep biology. Lots of variation in light exposure, housing type, and subsistence.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧵 below.
July 31, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Pleased to present our new preprint on sleep and circadian rhythms among the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia.
This is a fascinating system for exploring sleep biology. Lots of variation in light exposure, housing type, and subsistence.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧵 below.
This is a fascinating system for exploring sleep biology. Lots of variation in light exposure, housing type, and subsistence.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧵 below.
Reposted by Vivek V. Venkataraman
Some fun unpublished data from a talk I gave years ago on the sexual division of labor (SDOL) among the Batek of Malaysia.
The Batek have been described as highly gender-egalitarian.
Kirk and Karen Endicott collected the data in 1975-76, back when the Batek were fully nomadic foragers.
The Batek have been described as highly gender-egalitarian.
Kirk and Karen Endicott collected the data in 1975-76, back when the Batek were fully nomadic foragers.
July 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Some fun unpublished data from a talk I gave years ago on the sexual division of labor (SDOL) among the Batek of Malaysia.
The Batek have been described as highly gender-egalitarian.
Kirk and Karen Endicott collected the data in 1975-76, back when the Batek were fully nomadic foragers.
The Batek have been described as highly gender-egalitarian.
Kirk and Karen Endicott collected the data in 1975-76, back when the Batek were fully nomadic foragers.
Some fun unpublished data from a talk I gave years ago on the sexual division of labor (SDOL) among the Batek of Malaysia.
The Batek have been described as highly gender-egalitarian.
Kirk and Karen Endicott collected the data in 1975-76, back when the Batek were fully nomadic foragers.
The Batek have been described as highly gender-egalitarian.
Kirk and Karen Endicott collected the data in 1975-76, back when the Batek were fully nomadic foragers.
July 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Some fun unpublished data from a talk I gave years ago on the sexual division of labor (SDOL) among the Batek of Malaysia.
The Batek have been described as highly gender-egalitarian.
Kirk and Karen Endicott collected the data in 1975-76, back when the Batek were fully nomadic foragers.
The Batek have been described as highly gender-egalitarian.
Kirk and Karen Endicott collected the data in 1975-76, back when the Batek were fully nomadic foragers.
From our new preprint on physical activity (PA) and cardiometabolic health among the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia.
An extreme lifestyle gradient results in drastic variation in PA, w/ especially notable age-related declines in PA with urbanization
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
An extreme lifestyle gradient results in drastic variation in PA, w/ especially notable age-related declines in PA with urbanization
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
July 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
From our new preprint on physical activity (PA) and cardiometabolic health among the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia.
An extreme lifestyle gradient results in drastic variation in PA, w/ especially notable age-related declines in PA with urbanization
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
An extreme lifestyle gradient results in drastic variation in PA, w/ especially notable age-related declines in PA with urbanization
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Our new preprint looks at how early life environments shape adult cardiometabolic health among the Orang Asli.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
"We find support for the Developmental Constraints model but not the Predictive Adaptive Response model in explaining adult cardiometabolic health"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
"We find support for the Developmental Constraints model but not the Predictive Adaptive Response model in explaining adult cardiometabolic health"
Early life environments shape adult cardiometabolic health during rapid lifestyle change
Early life environments can have long-lasting impacts on health and fitness, but the evolutionary significance of these effects remains debated. Two major classes of explanations have been proposed: d...
www.biorxiv.org
July 21, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Our new preprint looks at how early life environments shape adult cardiometabolic health among the Orang Asli.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
"We find support for the Developmental Constraints model but not the Predictive Adaptive Response model in explaining adult cardiometabolic health"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
"We find support for the Developmental Constraints model but not the Predictive Adaptive Response model in explaining adult cardiometabolic health"
Check out our new preprint! We ask: how does urbanization impact cardiometabolic health among Orang Asli and Turkana?
Congrats to lead author @marinawatowich.bsky.social!
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
"We find that age effects on cardiometabolic health are highly modifiable by lifestyle..."
Congrats to lead author @marinawatowich.bsky.social!
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
"We find that age effects on cardiometabolic health are highly modifiable by lifestyle..."
Urbanization exacerbates age-associated declines in cardiometabolic health in Turkana and Orang Asli
Declines in cardiometabolic health among older individuals are so ubiquitous in Western, high-income countries that non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascu...
www.medrxiv.org
July 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Check out our new preprint! We ask: how does urbanization impact cardiometabolic health among Orang Asli and Turkana?
Congrats to lead author @marinawatowich.bsky.social!
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
"We find that age effects on cardiometabolic health are highly modifiable by lifestyle..."
Congrats to lead author @marinawatowich.bsky.social!
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
"We find that age effects on cardiometabolic health are highly modifiable by lifestyle..."
Reposted by Vivek V. Venkataraman
Useful observation by @enzaspinapolice.bsky.social that a simplistic and problematic 'man the hunter' stereotype was propagated by popular science (e.g. Audrey, Morris) and was less explicit in original academic literature.
@ishpssb2025.bsky.social
@ishpssb2025.bsky.social
July 21, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Useful observation by @enzaspinapolice.bsky.social that a simplistic and problematic 'man the hunter' stereotype was propagated by popular science (e.g. Audrey, Morris) and was less explicit in original academic literature.
@ishpssb2025.bsky.social
@ishpssb2025.bsky.social
Reposted by Vivek V. Venkataraman
I'm excited to share that my wife's book, The Mind Electric, is out! She's a brilliant neurologist and weaves together patient stories exploring the human mind. I read it and it's fantastic. If you r interested in the mind, culture, & how we make meaning, check it out! www.amazon.com/Mind-Electri...
June 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I'm excited to share that my wife's book, The Mind Electric, is out! She's a brilliant neurologist and weaves together patient stories exploring the human mind. I read it and it's fantastic. If you r interested in the mind, culture, & how we make meaning, check it out! www.amazon.com/Mind-Electri...
Reposted by Vivek V. Venkataraman
The Friends of IAST conference has come to an end
Thank you to all the attendees, presenters, partners & organizers for the richness of the moments we shared together: discussions, presentations as well as informal exchanges during the coffee breaks!
👋 @minhuayan.bsky.social S. Mitter J. Stieglitz
Thank you to all the attendees, presenters, partners & organizers for the richness of the moments we shared together: discussions, presentations as well as informal exchanges during the coffee breaks!
👋 @minhuayan.bsky.social S. Mitter J. Stieglitz
July 4, 2025 at 8:53 AM
The Friends of IAST conference has come to an end
Thank you to all the attendees, presenters, partners & organizers for the richness of the moments we shared together: discussions, presentations as well as informal exchanges during the coffee breaks!
👋 @minhuayan.bsky.social S. Mitter J. Stieglitz
Thank you to all the attendees, presenters, partners & organizers for the richness of the moments we shared together: discussions, presentations as well as informal exchanges during the coffee breaks!
👋 @minhuayan.bsky.social S. Mitter J. Stieglitz
Reposted by Vivek V. Venkataraman
🎉 The Friends of IAST conference kicks off today in Toulouse!
Held every two years, this event brings together IAST alumni and new research fellows—two days of reconnecting, sharing ideas, and sparking new collaborations.
👋Organizers: @minhuayan.bsky.social S. Mitter J. Stieglitz
Held every two years, this event brings together IAST alumni and new research fellows—two days of reconnecting, sharing ideas, and sparking new collaborations.
👋Organizers: @minhuayan.bsky.social S. Mitter J. Stieglitz
June 30, 2025 at 11:35 AM
🎉 The Friends of IAST conference kicks off today in Toulouse!
Held every two years, this event brings together IAST alumni and new research fellows—two days of reconnecting, sharing ideas, and sparking new collaborations.
👋Organizers: @minhuayan.bsky.social S. Mitter J. Stieglitz
Held every two years, this event brings together IAST alumni and new research fellows—two days of reconnecting, sharing ideas, and sparking new collaborations.
👋Organizers: @minhuayan.bsky.social S. Mitter J. Stieglitz