Michael Muthukrishna

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Associate Professor at LSE. Tech Director and co-founder of the Database of Religious History. Researching & spreading the word on how humans evolved & what that means for us today.
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Websitehttps://michael.muthukrishna.com/
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Full thread on the cultural evolution of genetic heritability and what it means for understanding IQ and intelligence here:
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🚨New target article in @BBSJournal: "Cultural Evolution of Genetic Heritability" w/ @RyutaroUchiyama & @RachelASpicer

Preprint: http://muth.io/cegh

BBS: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/abs/cultural-evolution-of-genetic-heritability/9CBEB62920…
https://twitter.com/mmuthukrishna/status/1395731515540127746

See @JoHenrich and my review, summarized here:
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🚨New paper on "The Origins and Psychology of Human Cooperation" in Annual Review of Psychology w/ @JoHenrich. Many mechanisms have been proposed to explain human cooperation. How well do they explain the breadth, intensity, & variation across societies, history, & domain? 1/
https://twitter.com/mmuthukrishna/status/1351223993093791745
Michael Muthukrishna on Twitter

“🚨New paper on "The Origins and Psychology of Human Cooperation" in Annual Review of Psychology w/ @JoHenrich. Many mechanisms have been proposed to explain human cooperation. How well do they explain the breadth, intensity, & variation across societies, history, & domain? 1/”

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This is huge. #ChatGPT fails at math and isn't as good at traditional computation, but can plug that gap with #WolframAlpha thanks to all the work on its natural language interface.

ChatGPT can read the documentation to decide to speak to WolframAlpha with words or the Wolfram…
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Had a great conversation with the one and only @stephen_wolfram

🗣 We talked about prompt engineering, AI ethics & constitutions, and of course…
https://twitter.com/imjaredz/status/1639354508097511435

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I had the privilege of reading an early copy of Optimally Irrational. @[email protected] tries to tame the proliferating plethora of heuristics & biases in behavioral science using an evolutionary theoretical framework.🤞inspires follow ups, integrating more cultural evolution. Good read!

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After several years in the making, I am finally holding it in my hand!

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/page_eco/status/1608122253623058432

Lionel Page on Twitter

“After several years in the making, I am finally holding it in my hand!”

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#Australia: where even the #birds are trying to kill you. It's good to be back.

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Anyone up for a debate at the next HBES conference about whether HBES should delete its bylaw about not engaging in political issues? Because if a right-wing thinktank is actively trying to recruit you, I think you’re already engaging in politics…

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RebeccaSear/status/1604446490344259587

Rebecca Sear on Twitter

“Anyone up for a debate at the next HBES conference about whether HBES should delete its bylaw about not engaging in political issues? Because if a right-wing thinktank is actively trying to recruit you, I think you’re already engaging in politics…”

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A truly interdisciplinary group of scholars responded. Researchers in behavioral genetics & cultural evolution, but also evolutionary biology broadly, anthropology, psychology, psychiatry, education, philosophy. They pushed back, raised further points, and suggested extensions 2/

RT dr_appie: In case you missed it, this is my commentary titled "The evolutionary dance between culture, genes, and everything in between" 🕺🏽🧬💃🏼

It's about how current heritability or genetic effect estimates are only a snapshot of a much richer dynamic relationship between DNA & behaviour

QT mmuthukrishna: 🚨 What's the cultural evolution of genetic heritability?

We got a lot of commentaries on our article. Here's a 🧵 summary of our… https://twitter.com/twitter/status/1597683548957200384

Michael Muthukrishna on Twitter

“RT @dr_appie: In case you missed it, this is my commentary titled "The evolutionary dance between culture, genes, and everything in between…”

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🚨 What's the cultural evolution of genetic heritability?

We got a lot of commentaries on our article. Here's a 🧵 summary of our reply "Integrating cultural evolution and behavioral genetics".

But first, in case you missed it, here's the target article summary.

QT mmuthukrishna: 🚨New target article in \@BBSJournal: "Cultural Evolution of Genetic Heritability" w/ @ryutarouchiyama @rachelaspicer

Preprint: http://muth.io/cegh

BBS:… https://twitter.com/twitter/status/1597536259802423296

It was arduous but rewarding to bring behavioral genetics and cultural evolution into conversation through dual inheritance. We're grateful to all the amazing researchers who deeply engaged with our paper.

The conversation doesn't stop at @[email protected] – let's keep it going! 19/