Sarah Peacey @haraspc
Research Fellow @UCLAnthropology. Researching the evolution of belief in witchcraft. Joined June 2013-
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Once again adding to the noise but this time on falling birth rates. A trend that has stumped the human evolutionary sciences for years.
Once again adding to the noise but this time on falling birth rates. A trend that has stumped the human evolutionary sciences for years.
Happy Halloween! In a timely HBES blog, Sarah Peacey discusses the ancestry of witchcraft beliefs: hbes.com/exploring-the-… Or read the original EHB article on the cultural evolution of witchcraft beliefs: doi.org/10.1016/j.evol…
Watching tonight's BBC documentary on the Badger cull? Angered by what's going on? Please sign the petition calling on @UKLabour to end the Badger cull today. protectthewild.org.uk/badger-petitio… #badgercull #badgers #stopthecull #endthecull
New paper: The cultural evolution of witchcraft beliefs with @haraspc et al. Some traditions have been around a long time sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
New paper with @QiaoqiaoHe2 et al is out.
New paper with @QiaoqiaoHe2 et al is out.
Will you watch this? If you eat bacon, will you? Please? "In 2003 the Farm Animal Welfare Council said CO2 killing “is not acceptable and we wish to see it phased out in five years”. However, its use has instead increased to 88% of all pigs in 2022." theguardian.com/environment/20…
I'm organising a pre-@ehbea2023 satellite meeting on behalf of @evobias_erc "Researching sensitive topics in the quantitative social sciences". We have a great list of speakers from both inside and outside academia. Sign up here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-res…
My newly published research article on Current Biology! Our comparative study examines the effects of dispersal on workload - Sex inequality driven by dispersal cell.com/current-biolog… Also a link to The Conversation post. theconversation.com/women-work-har…
My newly published research article on Current Biology! Our comparative study examines the effects of dispersal on workload - Sex inequality driven by dispersal cell.com/current-biolog… Also a link to The Conversation post. theconversation.com/women-work-har…
Reminder that abstract submission and registration for #EHBEA2023 at UCL are OPEN ⬇️ cambridge.org/core/membershi…
New chapter! Building on our recent opinion paper in @BehavEcol, @EvaKBrandl, @tavitonst and I, together with @may_hanzhi and @haraspc, explore the role of human behavioural ecology in cultural evolution research: osf.io/u47tw/ A thread🧵 [1/13]
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"The victims were rounded up at gunpoint and taken to secret detention centres. They recounted being stripped naked, beaten, pressured into confessing to committing murders through witchcraft." Remembering persecution in Gambia under President Jammeh. bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr…
New paper out with @tavitonst on whether common demographic risk factors for intimate-partner violence (IPV) associate similarly with natal family violence - with a particular focus on cousin marriage. Using data from >17000 Jordanian women 🧵academic.oup.com/emph/article/1…
Why might witchcraft accusations be sex-specific? A short blog on our paper with @OLKCampbell @tavitonst evoanthucl.wixsite.com/blog/post/conf…
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Same-sex competition and sexual conflict expressed through witchcraft accusations disq.us/t/472b6nc by @haraspc and @OLKCampbell and me
New paper!📜 We ask: "What is cultural evolution anyway?" Our answer: a phenomenon, not a theory/ approach. Understanding this helps clarify other issues, e.g. the role of human behavioural ecology. With @EvaKBrandl & @tavitonst (@evobias_erc) academic.oup.com/beheco/advance…
Trail hunting is just a trail of lies . . . Please watch and share this beautifully made film by @Keeptheban_ and sign the petition too . Thank you . keeptheban.uk/petition #trailoflies
Just received the gift of Covid this Christmas! Left is with a swab of tonsils and nostrils, right is just nostrils (as directed for this test). Thanks to @CharisStaatz for making me aware of this!
Just received the gift of Covid this Christmas! Left is with a swab of tonsils and nostrils, right is just nostrils (as directed for this test). Thanks to @CharisStaatz for making me aware of this! https://t.co/BoY5CuGPP4
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