Brian Wood
@woodbrian.bsky.social
Evolutionary anthropologist, Assoc. Prof. of anthropology at UCLA. Interested in hunter-gatherers, foraging, spatial behavior, non-human primates, science, travel, music, the world out there. Director of the Hadza Fund.
RIP Jane Goodall. Two of the most inspirational books I've ever read are her works: "In the Shadow of Man" and "Chimpanzees of Gombe". Now teaching at UCLA, I honor her, her work, and what she stood for. Thank you Jane for a life so well lived, and for your example.
October 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
RIP Jane Goodall. Two of the most inspirational books I've ever read are her works: "In the Shadow of Man" and "Chimpanzees of Gombe". Now teaching at UCLA, I honor her, her work, and what she stood for. Thank you Jane for a life so well lived, and for your example.
Day one traveling in Tanzania right now, finding my ability to small talk politics with taxi drivers much harder than usual. Swahili primer for 2025.
June 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Day one traveling in Tanzania right now, finding my ability to small talk politics with taxi drivers much harder than usual. Swahili primer for 2025.
Consider how inaccurate this rendered illustration of the specific fossil KNM-ER 3733 is. It is an anatomical misrepresentation. The landmarks are completely bonkers-wrong. This kind of image is allowed by OpenAI policies, but photorealistic images of hypothetical human ancestors are not?
March 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Consider how inaccurate this rendered illustration of the specific fossil KNM-ER 3733 is. It is an anatomical misrepresentation. The landmarks are completely bonkers-wrong. This kind of image is allowed by OpenAI policies, but photorealistic images of hypothetical human ancestors are not?
2/3 A first glimpse of the partially rendered image is displayed, in truly stunning detail. Wow! What a great teaching tool this could be!
March 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
2/3 A first glimpse of the partially rendered image is displayed, in truly stunning detail. Wow! What a great teaching tool this could be!
PSA: ChatGPT 4o can make simple maps like this. I first made a clean site map using rub-on Letraset, circa 1999 or so. I spent the 2000s fighting with evil ESRI software. Then, thankfully, came R in the 2010s. This map took 20 seconds, a 99% time saving from former tech.
February 27, 2025 at 11:47 PM
PSA: ChatGPT 4o can make simple maps like this. I first made a clean site map using rub-on Letraset, circa 1999 or so. I spent the 2000s fighting with evil ESRI software. Then, thankfully, came R in the 2010s. This map took 20 seconds, a 99% time saving from former tech.
The Dietary Life of the Hadzapi Tribe --Kozo Tomita 1966
February 22, 2025 at 5:59 AM
The Dietary Life of the Hadzapi Tribe --Kozo Tomita 1966
Seasonal availability of important Hadza plant foods, documented by Tomita in 1966
February 22, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Seasonal availability of important Hadza plant foods, documented by Tomita in 1966