Ed Hagen

@ed_hagen

Biological anthropologist. Evolutionary medicine, evolution of leadership and cognition.

Washington State University
Joined July 2018

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  1. Jan 24

    Subrena Smith recently argued that “evolutionary psychology, as it is currently understood, is…impossible.” Here is my response:

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  2. Jan 14

    In Memoriam: Napoleon A. Chagnon (1938–2019) By Larry Sugiyama and myself:

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  3. 21 Dec 2019

    Problem somewhere in your file, so your , , and other stuff won't compile? Duplicate entries? Is your file just a godawful mess? Check out this cool online bibtex validator and tidier from :

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  4. Retweeted
    17 Dec 2019

    Fav thing I read in 2019 was this by , on how moving academic publishing to git could ingeniously circumvent high journal costs, 📈 open access, & preserve an academic incentive structure by leveraging tech/business dependence on open source code

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  5. 10 Dec 2019

    Niche construction theory is in my feed today, so I thought I'd post this very cool 2014 critical evaluation of it co-authored by advocate Kevin Laland and a team of skeptics led by

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  6. 6 Dec 2019

    Our beautiful R1 WSU campus, 15 min from Portland in the Pacific NW, is searching for a new Academic Director of the College of Arts and Sciences. Due to our "unique" multi-campus system this is a Dean-esque (but officially Associate Dean) level position:

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  7. 26 Nov 2019
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  8. 25 Nov 2019

    In her new publication for the Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, my grad student takes on, uh, most of mainstream psychiatry. She's on 🔥🔥🔥:

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  9. 24 Nov 2019

    That the replication crisis in the social sciences has anything to do with statistics. Instead, our theories just suck.

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  10. 23 Nov 2019

    Alternative R name conflict resolution strategy from Hadley Wickham. Load this library and an error will be thrown for every conflict, forcing you to choose which function to use. Should prevent accidentally calling wrong function & getting weird errors:

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  11. Retweeted
    18 Nov 2019

    More patchwork goodies. I've had this on the horizon since I started the package

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  12. 7 Nov 2019

    Paley, a major influence on Darwin, had keen sense of organism as machine. He especially understood that mechanisms must be understood in relation to their environments. Wrote an entire chapter on the topic in Natural Theology; uses "adaptation" & variants 54 x

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  13. 28 Oct 2019

    Science, for article on evolution of suicide, had long interview with my grad on her costly signaling model, but then didn't mention it because media guidelines discourage portraying suicide as “solving problems”. But they did pub her letter

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  14. 17 Oct 2019

    Building on the work of Robin Fox, Rodseth et al 1991 highlight unique elements of human social organization compared to other primates, esp. *cooperation* at the group level (alliances). Essential reading for evo social scientists.

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  15. 10 Oct 2019

    : Cosmides' and Tooby's greatest paper had nothing (directly) to do with .

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  16. 8 Oct 2019

    Mainstream: depression is brain dysfunction. Treat it, ideally w/ cheap drugs, to increase worker productivity. Our model: Work-related depression is functional response to adverse working conditions, e.g. exploitation. Must improve working conditions, not alter brain chemistry!

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  17. Retweeted
    31 Oct 2018

    Our new R package "export" is out on CRAN! It allows you to easily export graphs and statistical tables to 'Microsoft Office' / 'LibreOffice', 'Latex' and 'HTML'. Graphs are exported in vector format, enabling easy editing if desired!

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  18. 29 Sep 2019

    Our 2001 report is here (my stuff begins on p. 10): (5/5)

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  19. 29 Sep 2019

    - We made a huge mistake trying to prevent publication of Tierney's New Yorker article and W.W. Norton book. Understandably lead the press to believe there was something to hide. If you find yourself in a controversy, DON'T DO THIS! Push to get everything out in the open. (4/5)

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  20. 29 Sep 2019

    - Evidence of fraud *did* have an impact on rank and file members of the AAA, who voted overwhelmingly (846 to 338) to rescind acceptance of the Report of the El Dorado Task Force. Thought leaders don't necessarily have followers (3/5)

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