Agustín Fuentes

Professor of Anthropology @Princeton, Author of #TheCreativeSpark, #WhyWeBelieveEvolutionandtheHumanWayofBeing, and #RaceMonogamyandOtherLiesTheyToldyou

[Agustín Fuentes @Anthrofuentes]

Being human entails an astonishingly complex interplay of biology and culture. “Sex is a Spectrum: the biological limits of the binary”
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[Agustín Fuentes @Anthrofuentes]

@TsMcHale @byrne_a @conor64 @TomasBogardus @nathanlents usually I'd leave this kind of comment alone, but please have a look at my record before you make these kinds of ignorant statements. Did you read my actual chapter on Darwin, not just the 750 word invited OpEd in Science?

[Agustín Fuentes @Anthrofuentes]

@TsMcHale @byrne_a @conor64 @TomasBogardus @nathanlents I can keep going...my point is go ahead and dislike my public facing work, but I've been doing field and lab research across a range of topics for more than 30 years. And still am. A scholar can do both. That is an important reality of the academy. .

[Agustín Fuentes @Anthrofuentes]

@TsMcHale @byrne_a @conor64 @TomasBogardus @nathanlents or Marcantonio, R., Javeline, D. and Fuentes, A. (2021) Global distribution and coincidence of pollution, climate impacts, and health risk in the Anthropocene PLoS ONE 16(7):e0254060. https://t.co/li93CA0LcU

[Agustín Fuentes @Anthrofuentes]

@TsMcHale @byrne_a @conor64 @TomasBogardus @nathanlents or Saiyed, S.T., Fuentes, A., Shaw, E. et al. (2024) Barbary macaques show sex-related differences in body weight based on anthropogenic food exposure despite comparable female–male stable isotope ratios. Sci Rep 14, 3320 https://t.co/gC070raMi2

[Agustín Fuentes @Anthrofuentes]

@TsMcHale @byrne_a @conor64 @TomasBogardus @nathanlents or Fuentes, A., French, J.C., Hawks, J., Kissel, M. and Spikins. P. (2026) Social and emotional cognition in Pleistocene hominin evolution: the role of biocultural processes Jour. of Archeological Science 185 https://t.co/3k8ABTkiyD

[Agustín Fuentes @Anthrofuentes]

@TsMcHale @byrne_a @conor64 @TomasBogardus @nathanlents how about you read some of my. non-public fcaing stuff?
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Fuentes, A., Downey, G., and Gillett, A.J. (2026) More than “Information in the Head”: Culture, Cultural Evolution, and Concepts in Dynamic Assemblages. Current Anthropology 67(2):302-329 https://t.co/IXxXQlhxX7

[Agustín Fuentes @Anthrofuentes]

@TsMcHale @byrne_a @conor64 @TomasBogardus @nathanlents this is for SAPIENS, it's a public facing piece. And what's crazy about it?

[Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd]

Too many non-academic interweb gotcha editorialists are looking for hyperbolic examples to confirm an answer to a question that they’ve concluded in advance. And the question has nothing to do with education, evidence based research, or the history of ideas.

[Zachary Levenson @grundrza]

Here's an ex. of a left-leaning scholar effectively losing his job for his politics this week. I can think of multiple examples from this year alone.

We keep hearing about conservative speech being suppressed. Can these Atlantic writers, aspiring & actual, provide any examples?

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Team brilliance won over dazzling individualism to secure the World Cup for Spain. Functioning, wholesome multiculturalism also got a share of the glory. Football overcame, only just, the rabid commodification and the corporate shenanigans that almost killed its spirit. Food for thought about all the other realms of human endeavour. https://t.co/jkANOr2VRf

[B/R Football @brfootball]

Spain are the first nation ever to hold the men's and women's World Cups at the same time 🤝

[FIFA World Cup @FIFAWorldCup]

Spain are #FIFAWorldCup Champions. 🏆

[anthony k webster 🐿 @ethnopoetics]

Rather than attack a strawman anthropology, people might want to consider that anthropology is an organization of diversity, full of viewpoint diversity, get a dozen anthropologists in a room and ask them what "culture" is or if it even exists, now there's diversity

[Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction]

@samhaselby What’s your argument for the claim that the “bar for getting facts right” has become “lower” for scholarship in which “political activism and scholarship are the same thing”? Even to begin to prove this claim would require very significant evidence and analysis. Where is it?

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

¡¡SOMOS CAMPEONES DEL MUNDO!! 🇪🇸

¡Enorme nuestra Selección!

Gracias, equipo.

[patrick "inverted vibe curve" blanchfield @PatBlanchfield]

unlike my colleagues, whom I despise and whose work is both frivolous garbage yet incredibly politically dangerous, I'm the real deal. here's my thread/article on what that says about higher education and why those scum should be fired
- the dark phd, aka academics HATE this prof

[Agustín Fuentes @Anthrofuentes]

@TsMcHale @byrne_a @conor64 @TomasBogardus @nathanlents really? Have you read any of my work?

[Agustín Fuentes @Anthrofuentes]

@byrne_a @conor64 @TomasBogardus @nathanlents Thanks. Tried to read that when it came out, can you send me pdf? Not going to pay for access to Colin's site.

[John Hawks @johnhawks]

I’m fascinated today reading a recent article about insect-eating and ancient dental calculus. In brief, Neanderthals have as much insect DNA in their dental calculus as western chimpanzees, while ancient European modern people have a lot less.

https://t.co/m6p5itx4bI

[Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction]

A professor in [checks notes] Business Ethics who is apparently an expert on [notes again] bitcoin... picked 1 paragraph out of 1 article in 1 disciplinary journal to attempt some kind of dunk on the entire field of anthropology. The article he’s trashing actually looks excellent