Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias
@padillaccc
Research Fellow @EEG_Cam & @EmmaCambridge | Public Scholars Fellow @SAPIENS_org ✍🏽| Book Review Editor @ISHE_society 🌻| Editor, Hunter Gatherer Research
And with this piece on seasonality and how societies have always been much more fluid and flexible than we often think, my fellowship at Sapiens ends 😢 It's been a fantastic and fun learning experience - and I'm immensely grateful to the whole team 🥰 sapiens.org/biology/forage…
New preprint led by fantastic Margherita Colucci on the impact of malaria on shaping human habitat choice over the last 74,000 years! 🦟🧪 So proud of the work of all the authors and so grateful for having been able to play a little part in it 🤗🥰 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
#SAfA2025 kicks off today in #Faro, #Portugal! Hosted by #ICArEHB, we’re ready to welcome the global #AfricanistArchaeology community for a week of connection and knowledge-sharing at the #CrossroadsThroughTime.
This summer, August 31st, we are hosting an evolutionary psychiatry debate in Cambridge. Experts discussing whether depression is functional and whether evolutionary perspectives are more important in research or the clinic. Audience participation possible. Join us!…
What are the relative impact of diet vs physical activity on the global obesity crisis? New paper out @pnas uses the DLW Database with 4000+ participants across 34 populations to investigate Obesity & Energy Expenditure Across the Economic Spectrum. Open access link below!🧵1/
Skewed sex ratios correlate with violence against women from spouses, boyfriends and in-laws, but less so for honour-based violence from natal family| Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - @OLKCampbell Maheen Pracha @tavitonst @Journal_EHS cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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📣ATTENTION!!! Two PhD positions on Creativity in Wild Chimpanzees and Bonobos 🤩@snsf_ch @UZH_en @univofstandrews Come join @APE_Group_UZH & Wild Minds Lab @NakedPrimate ✨Please RT✨ @EFPrimatology @PsgbStudent @BiologicalAnth @IPS_PrimateNews @PrimateEducate
So pleased to have won this award. Thank you @padillaccc, Gregory, @tavitonst and @HumBehEvoSoc
The winners of the HBES Margo Wilson Award (best paper in E&HB the previous year) are Olympia Campbell, Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias, Gregory Fiorio, & Ruth Mace for the paper “Genetic markers of cousin marriage and honour cultures”. Congratulations! doi.org/10.1016/j.evol…
Super proud of @OLKCampbell and super happy to have been able to be a little part in this 🥰 And thank you @HumBehEvoSoc!
The winners of the HBES Margo Wilson Award (best paper in E&HB the previous year) are Olympia Campbell, Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias, Gregory Fiorio, & Ruth Mace for the paper “Genetic markers of cousin marriage and honour cultures”. Congratulations! doi.org/10.1016/j.evol…
"Las instituciones parecen inmutables, cambiando sólo durante las revoluciones, los golpes de estado o las guerras." (...) el “mundo occidental” es una anomalía de 300.000 años de adaptabilidad cultural del Homo sapiens." @padillaccc Antropóloga. sapiens.org/biology/forage…
Delighted to see our new paper out in @ScienceAdvances investigating the evolution of infant directed communication, led by Franziska Wegdell, Johanna Schick and Caroline Fryns @UZH_Science @cog_comp_Neuch
New research suggests infant-directed communication expanded in humans and likely emerged after diverging from our great ape common ancestor approximately 6 to 8 million years ago. Learn more in this week’s issue of Science Advances: scim.ag/44n6oaT
"The 'Western world' is not the culmination of a 10,000-year-long march but an anomaly in a 300,000-year-long history of Homo sapiens’ cultural adaptability." @padillaccc for Sapiens: sapiens.org/biology/forage…
Although most of our lab members are now in the other place - I'll share here this fantastic paper that they just published in @Nature showing a major expansion of the niche of our species before the dispersal out of Africa! Have a read, it is amazing 😍 nature.com/articles/s4158…
Before the ‘Out of Africa’ migration that led humans into Eurasia and beyond, new research shows that humans expanded their niche to include African forests and deserts. Authors argue these adaptations were key to the dispersal's long-term success gea.mpg.de/158211/Before-…
So brilliant this piece by @padillaccc about how human societies have often been so flexible that political hierarchies change with the seasons, literally. Link in next tweet
Gouveia et al. in the @AJHGNews : Subcontinental genetic variation in the All of Us Research Program: Implications for biomedical research.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/…
I was really excited when I saw this study being presented at @ICArEHB last January and I'm really glad to see the paper out! Amazing record of cultural transmission strategies & cultural traits over 3 million years 🤩 journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…
¡Llamado a pensar la evolución desde el sur! Invitamos a estudiantes de maestría y doctorado en biología evolutiva de Sudamérica a postularse a EvoSur. 🧬 Un espacio para intercambiar ideas, debatir evolución y tejer redes científicas con todas las voces, todas. #CienciaCriolla
Great lab & great opportunity!
Interested in working with monkeys?🐒 Curious what baby marmoset monkey babbling means?🍼🗣️ We’re looking for a research assistant or a potential master student that will work with us to answer these questions! Please reach out for more information: [email protected]
Paleoproteomics and sexing of Paranthropus in South Africa published today in @ScienceMagazine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… #archaeology #anthropology