Robert Barton @howbrainsevolve

Evolutionary anthropologist interested in 'organs of extreme perfection and complication' (brains, mainly) dur.ac.uk/staff/r-a-bart… Durham University Joined November 2011

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Durham University @durham_uni

a week ago

A study co-authored by @howbrainsevolve of @AnthDurham1 gives new insight on how human hands and minds evolved together. 🧠The research is published in @CommsBio & was led by Dr Joanna Baker of @UniofReading 👉 brnw.ch/21wVcyc #DUresearch #DUinspire

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Robert Barton @howbrainsevolve

a week ago

New paper: Human dexterity and brains evolved hand in hand nature.com/articles/s4200…

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Robert Barton @howbrainsevolve

3 weeks ago

Pathway to Independence – an interview with Max Farnworth journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15…

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Robert Barton @howbrainsevolve

2 months ago

Humans may not have a uniquely specialised memory for sequences - it may be more to do with how tasks are culturally scaffolded and what they “mean” to participants. New paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

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Robert Barton @howbrainsevolve

2 months ago

Interesting new study demonstrates "cerebellar connectivity to higher-order networks at birth, which generally strengthen with age, emphasizing the cerebellum’s early role in cognitive processing beyond sensory and motor functions nature.com/articles/s4146…

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Vittorio Gallese @GalleseVittorio

2 months ago

Is the sense of reality a purely visual business?? "Our results demonstrate that a key mechanism through which the brain distinguishes imagination from reality is by monitoring the activity of the mid-level visual cortex." cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

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Megan Petersdorf @meganpetersdorf

2 months ago

Do you have field work experience? Do you want more? Our team wants YOU to manage our field site studying Kinda baboons in Kasanka National Park, Zambia! Start date is this August 2025 so apply ASAP! Job ad here: tinyurl.com/KindaBaboon

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Robert Barton @howbrainsevolve

2 months ago

'Embodied cognitive evolution and the limits of convergence' - paper by Louise Barrett and me just out: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…. .

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Neuroscience News @NeuroscienceNew

2 months ago

“Brains over Bots: Why Toddlers Still Beat AI at Learning Language” by Caroline Rowland et al. Trends in Cognitive Sciences dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics…

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Robert Barton @howbrainsevolve

2 months ago

Trump on embodied cognition (via ChatGPT)

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katja heuer🦋k4tj4.bsky.social🐘[email protected] @katjaQheuer

3 months ago

Thrilled for the upcoming TIBBE online talks &discussions with the amazing @howbrainsevolve & Susan Healy around how do we better connect brain structure, function & behaviours? Next Wednesday, May 28, 2pm UTC, 4pm Paris 🧠🐒🦜Join us crowdcast.io/c/linking-brai…

The Integrative Biology of Brain Evolution-TIBBE @TIBBE_EvolNeuro

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5 months ago

The only thing more depressing than Trump’s bullying with tariffs is other governments like the UK falling over themselves to negotiate to minimise them. Never a good idea to give a bully what they want

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5 months ago

I made this slide during his first presidency. It illustrates how not to make evolutionary inferences from comparative data (dashed red line, although that could also be stock markets). Today more than ever it seems like an insult to chimpanzees

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DonkConnects ♻️™ @donkoclock

5 months ago

Not one family in Nuuk, Greenland would accept a visit from JD and Usha Vance. NOT A SINGLE RESIDENCE, this is why the visit was cancelled. Drop a 💙 if you would REFUSE to let JD Vance in your home too.

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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney

7 months ago

Catherine Peters - one of the finest of Wilkie Collins's biographers - has died aged 94. The King of Inventors was written pre-internet. She went everywhere, read everything including his letters scattered around the world and set the bar for others bit.ly/4aP9sza RIP

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Robert Barton @howbrainsevolve

6 months ago

Being cynical, like Palmerston: “There are no permanent enemies, and no permanent friends, only permanent interests”. It is particularly shameless from the US though

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Robert Barton @howbrainsevolve

6 months ago

Does Donald Trump have conflicts of interest between policy and personal assets? Does he understand or care what a CoI is?

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Robert Barton @howbrainsevolve

6 months ago

I remember my father saying to me 50 years ago that ‘Fortress America’ would eventually look to itself, and Europe would be left to fend for itself. I was too young to understand what that meant. I do now

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @o_guest

6 months ago

Tired but happy to say this is out w @andrea_e_martin: Are Neurocognitive Representations 'Small Cakes'? We analyse theories of representation in neuroscience showing how vicious regress, e.g. the homunculus fallacy, is (sadly) alive and well — and importantly how to avoid it. 1/