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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On this #InternationalDayofOlderPersons, learn how human longevity is a legacy of our unique evolutionary path as a species in @mgurven.bsky.social’s Seven Decades which draws on important lessons from our ancestral history to transform how we think about aging. Save 30% with PUP30: buff.ly/6VDQ2l5

Seven Decades: How We Evolved to Live Longer

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Vivek V. Venkataraman @vivek123.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Check out our new paper, led by @amandalea.bsky.social, in PLoS Genetics: "Divergent biological consequences of APOE isoforms across industrialized and non-industrial environments." journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Enjoy 50% off Seven Decades through June 9th with code SPRING50! In this book, anthropologist @mgurven.bsky.social uncovers new evidence for the evolutionary origins of human longevity—and explains why growing old is an opportunity, not a burden. Order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Seven Decades: How We Evolved to Live Longer by Michael D. Gurven

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Michael Gurven @mgurven.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Thanks, @nautil.us for including my book Seven Decades: How We Evolved to Live Longer in your top 10 must reads to ring in the new year! nautil.us/the-nautilus...

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The Nautilus Winter Reading List 2025

The Nautilus Winter Reading List 2025: Ten books we loved to start your new year off right.

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

There's no greater gift than one that sparks curiosity & wonder. ✨ Browse our gift guide to find books that take readers on journeys through the intricacies of nature, the beauty of physics, & the incredible possibilities & risks of tech. Save 30% w/code PUP30: press.princeton.edu/collections/...

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David Shaywitz @dshaywitz.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

1/Enjoyed this @statnews.com piece by @mgurven.bsky.social offering sensible perspective on improving life expectancy of populations, incl increasing physical activity, "the best anti-aging remedy we have, an all-purpose longevity extender." www.statnews.com/2025/11/20/l...

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The anti-aging gold rush should focus on quality of life, not just quantity

“If Moore’s law applies to life expectancy the way it does to electronics, then we’ll have to spend and innovate exponentially more to keep pace,” writes Michael D. Gurven.

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Jorge Peña 🇵🇸 @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

📣 Are you a PhD student in the quantitative social sciences interested in interdisciplnary research? Join us at the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences (25 May-19 Jun 2026) at @tse-fr.eu. Apply by 15 Dec 2025 🎓🔍 👉 More info + application: www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...

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Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences

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Michael Gurven @mgurven.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Was a great conversation, thanks, Xavier!

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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

📢 Come join us! Penn State Anthropology is hiring *two tenure-track assistant professors*, one in human reproductive ecology and one in archaeology. Here are just a few reasons why working at Penn State is awesome:

A photo of the Susan Welch Liberal Arts building at sunrise

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Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Finally in my hands! A new book from @mgurven.bsky.social on why we age, and how we can age better, through the lens of evolutionary anthropology💙 Very excited to dive in!

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Darren Croft @darrencroft.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

We are hiring (Post number 2) - join us as a graduate research assistant to support killer whale research. Collaboration with @samellisq.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social Prof Dan Franks (York) start 1st Nov (or ASAP) end 31st Oct 2028. Apps close on 19th Oct. jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

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Michael Gurven @mgurven.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

An amazing opportunity with great multidisciplinary colleagues in the wonderful pink city of Toulouse

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Michael Gurven @mgurven.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Much appreciated, David! Very kind.

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Michael Gurven @mgurven.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Released today! SEVEN DECADES: HOW WE EVOLVED TO LIVE LONGER Now available at your favorite bookseller. Leave a review on Goodreads or Amazon if you can. Please help spread the word! #sevendecades @princetonupress.bsky.social

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Michael Gurven @mgurven.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Had a fun time talking with the Daves… thanks for having me on. check it out!

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Michael Gurven @mgurven.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Just one week away until SEVEN DECADES is born. Not too late to preorder (code PUP30 for discount): tinyurl.com/efpaxtex I hear from friends that the preorders are already arriving! @princetonupress.bsky.social

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Amy Boddy @amyboddy.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

The book we have all been waiting for from @mgurven.bsky.social is finally here!! Read it to get a broad perspective on human evolution and aging - stay for the fun titles 😀

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Adrian Jaeggi @jaeggiadrian.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Just got this book by one of my favourite anthropologists (and people) in the mail - if it's only half as good as the gushing advanced praise, this'll be an instant classic! Also, brilliant title, immediately putting to bed the notion that long lifespan is a new thing; we've evolved to live to ~70

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alma-solis.bsky.social @alma-solis.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

I’m having a great time in Bolivia with @mgurven.bsky.social, Jon Stiglitz, and Tsimane anthropologists investing the connection between different aspects of #sleep and Alzheimer’s and Dementia risk as part of my #postdoctoral research

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Michael Gurven @mgurven.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

One month before SEVEN DECADES: HOW WE EVOLVED TO LIVE LONGER is released! A prelim copy just arrived. I’m in Bolivia but my son opened the shipment and it appears that he approves. Preorder now (30% discount code: PUP30): press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Jordan S. Martin @jsmartin.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I'm very excited to share the central paper from my PhD out now in Science Advances. We investigated how social effects among neighbors shape the evolution of reproductive cooperation and the pace of adaptive population growth among the Indigenous Tsimane of Bolivia. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Indirect genetic effects among neighbors promote cooperation and accelerate adaptation in a small-scale human society

Social effects on fertility promote population growth and the evolution of flexible cooperation in a small-scale human society.

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Michael Gurven @mgurven.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Congrats to @amy-anderson.bsky.social for leading this project from start to finish. Was fun to work at the intersection of bioarchaeology, human biology and epidemiology!

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Amy Anderson @amy-anderson.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Clinically ignored, archaeologically common. Are these holes in the head a thing of the past? So glad to finally have this award winning research (@paleopathology.bsky.social ) out -- cribra orbitalia and its relationship to health in living Tsimane adults.

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Childhood skeletal lesions common in prehistory are present in living forager-farmers and predict adult markers of immune function

Skeletal indicators of childhood stress are associated with cellular indicators of compromised immune function in adults.

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Michael Gurven @mgurven.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Your next Fall read, my new book: SEVEN DECADES: HOW WE EVOLVED TO LIVE LONGER Longevity is shaped by our evolutionary past—imagine aging as opportunity rather than burden. Out Sept 16, preorder w/ code PUP30 for 30% discount: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... @princetonupress.bsky.social

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Seven Decades

An anthropologist uncovers new evidence for the evolutionary origins of human longevity—and explains why growing old is an opportunity, not a burden

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

“researchers found a 10% drop in earnings 4 years after a menopause diagnosis — due to both reduced hours & women leaving the workforce altogether. Women were also more likely to start disability benefits after a diagnoses. Notably, this impact was concentrated among women without a college degree”

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Hot and Bothered at Work: The "Menopause Penalty”

New research shows an earnings dip during menopause

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Pablo Nepomnaschy @pablonep.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Job available for Full Professor Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (CRC) - Indigenous Health and Well-Being at the Faculty of Health Science, Simon Fraser University (RT 🙏🏼 please): www.sfu.ca/vpacademic/a...

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Canada Research Chair - Indigenous Health and Well-Being

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Jeremy Koster @jeremykoster.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

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Lara Durgavich @ldurgavich.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

A relatable icon. #DarwinDay

Photo of Darwin with the quotation “I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything”

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Michael Gurven @mgurven.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Well-being trajectories of older adults look different in absence of retirement, institutionalized income & social security. For source paper, see: tinyurl.com/3u5cc5nv

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Subjective well-being across the life course among non-industrialized populations

Subjective well-being in small-scale subsistence-oriented societies shows variable trajectories over adulthood.

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

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Derek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I wrote the latest cover story for The Atlantic. It's about the far-ranging implications of one simple statistic: Americans have never spent so much time alone, and surging solitude is warping our society. I'm really proud of it, and I hope you read it. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Eric Schniter @humannature.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

New paper out with insights into kinship, alloparenting, and cooperative breeding! 🧪 Older, closely related kin more often provide costly aid to young Tsimane, while unrelated alloparents provide older youth lower-cost - possible investment in future reciprocal relationships.

A stacked bar graph showing proportions of different classes of kin who have contributed different forms of help to Tsimane youth with older generation blood kin help most represented.

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Adrian Jaeggi @jaeggiadrian.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

🚨 JOB ALERT!! We're looking for a PhD student to join our group! Are you interested in evolutionary medicine / anthropology? Already have a master's? Apply with your own project ideas! See link: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie... #EvMed @bioanth.org @ehbea.bsky.social Please RT!

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UZH: PhD position in evolutionary anthropology and medicine

The Human Ecology Group of the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine (IEM) Institute of Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zurich, led by Prof. Adrian Jaeggi, is inviting applications from prospe...

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Sean Prall @sprall.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Today is #GivingTuesday Please consider donating to the OnePencil project to help fund water wells in rural Namibian schools and scholarships for Tsimane students. This is a really great org. See link below:

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One Pencil Project @onepencilproject.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

On this #GivingTuesday, please consider our Onward & Upward initiative. We're dedicated to empowering indigenous learners in the Amazon & southern Africa by providing the essential educational resources they require to prosper and guide their communities.

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One Pencil Project: Onward and Upward 2024 | One Pencil Project (Powered by Donorbox)

Join us, to help indigenous students in the Amazon and southern Africa get the education they need to thrive and to lead their communities, as the climate crisis and other threats to their sovereignty...

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

"Old individuals make important contributions to reproduction, cultural transmission, trophic dynamics & resilience to disturbance. This contrasts with the senescence-focused paradigm of old age that has dominated the literature yet is consistent with behavioral ecology & life-history theory"

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Jeffrey G. Snodgrass @godfreysnorgyrs.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

My team's latest, "Sharpening causal reasoning in applied ethnographic research" #causality doi.org/10.1080/0018...

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Amy Boddy @amyboddy.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

🎉IAS is recruiting🎉 UCSB Integrative Anth Sciences is hiring a tenure-track evo anthropologist (assist/assoc prof): Apply by 1/06/25 To apply: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02866 Please retweet! Estimate: Assist:$95,000-$135,000 & Assoc:$120,000-$180,000. UCSB is an AA/EOE, including disability/vets.

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Assistant/Associate Professor in Evolutionary Anthropology/Anthropology of Health

University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!

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Dr. Vanessa Campanacho @vcampanacho.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

A new Bluesky starter pack listing biological anthropologists. Let me know if you want to be added go.bsky.app/CnJLf95

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