David W. JonesThe Real Value of Story. Speaking particularly of the survival value of story. #evolutionary #psychology #cultural #anthropology #writing #storytelling
http://dancingtreefrog.com/2026/03/27/the-real-value-of-story/
Bodhi 心RE: https://kamu.social/@JankaWessman/116288514282615733
A good thread from @JankaWessman. It is heartening to hear a psychiatrist talk about #resilience building and the perils of #diagnosis and the importance of (my words, but on theme 👉🏼) allowing #distress to be distress without necessarily freaking out. Includes a good perspective from #evolutionary #psychology and on the narrow-mindedness of binaries.
Stefan F. WirthRE: https://mastodon.green/@plazi_species/116260383338896477
#Endemic #species are always interesting from different perspectives, e.g. from an #evolutionary and #ecological point of view. This also applies to #skinks of the genus
#Madascincus, being with several known species endemic to #Madagascar.
A. Miralles et al. (2026) described based on #multilocus #phylogenetics and #morphology two #newspecies:
M. #irery and M.
#minotaurus, with restricted distributions to limited areas of Madagascar only.
© this text #StefanFWirth
ScienceCommunicator#Evolutionary #Psychology (the podcast): #Music and #Acoustics with Greg Byrant
Episode webpage: https://epthepod.podbean.com/e/greg-byrant/
Media file: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/e963uxx6476brwff/Greg_Bryantadpbh.mp3
Music and Acoustics with Greg Byrant | Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast)
What's up with music? Why do vibrating strings tug on our emotions? And why can't most animals keep a beat? In this episode, we talk to Greg Bryant (UCLA) all about things acoustic and musical. Other topics include: the evolutionary logic of distortion in rock, laughter (including in rats!), and the psychology of perfect pitch and jamming. More about Greg Bryant: https://gabryant.scholar.ss.ucla.edu/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=urz-QfkAAAAJ&hl=en Greg's music: /gbryant.bandzoogle.com/home https://gbryant.bandcamp.com/album/soft-assembly-of-a-die-hard
M.M. Sandin et al. (preprint, 2025) "inferred a timeline of #eukaryoteevolution using molecular clock and birth-death diversification models". They used a "#dataset of 75,975 non-redundant...#taxonomicunits and 77 well-supported fossil calibrations" and reconstructed an #evolutionary #diversification of #eukaryote #crowngroup representatives in the Proterozoic (ca. 2.5 billion to 541 million y. ago).
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https://doi.org/10.64898/2025.12.12.693929
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M.M.Sandin et al.(2025), http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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🐾Banjanac et al. report🐾that iridoid diversity in🐾catmints is at least partially attributed🐾to #evolutionary gains🐾and losses of key🐾#biosynthetic #genes.
🔗https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70125🐾
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🐾Banjanac et al. report🐾that iridoid diversity in🐾catmints is at least partially attributed🐾to #evolutionary gains🐾and losses of key🐾#biosynthetic #genes.
🔗https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70125🐾
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Knowledge ZoneThe #Scientist’s 10 #Commandments : Medium
How an all-#Female #Fish species defies #Evolutionary expectations ($): Nature
#Pi has been #Calculated to trillions of #Digits - is that completely #Irrational? : Live Sci
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Guaranteed a world wide civil war because this is #psychic #evolutionary #moment. There is a movement among those trained to go beyond and bring it back & now they just want credit. #Finitists and #Ultra-Finitists mathematicians and physicists are #facsist in #quality of thinking.
#Plant & animal #immune systems share an #evolutionary challenge: Defending against biotic #stress while minimizing self-damage.
Li et al. survey what we know & how understanding cross-kingdom mechanisms might improve #AgTech.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70109
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Li et al. survey what we know & how understanding cross-kingdom mechanisms might improve #AgTech.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70109
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Hacker NewsModeling Cycles of Grift with Evolutionary Game Theory
https://www.oranlooney.com/post/grifters-skeptics-marks/
#HackerNews #Modeling #Cycles #of #Grift #with #Evolutionary #Game #Theory #Grift #Theory #GameTheory #EvolutionaryModels #HackerNews