1. We welcomed Dr Alice Mitchell and Dr Catherine Sheard to the VariKin project. Alice will be working on VariKin-Development, studying children’s understanding of kinship relations in Bristol and Tanzania, and Catherine will be working on Varikin-Evolution and providing admin support.
2. Fiona, Alice, and Peter are at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology this week for the Kinship Cognition and Practiceconference.
3. Fiona will also be speaking at the Cultural Evolution Workshop at the MPI for the Science of Human History on September 26, talking about the value of kinship to the field of cultural evolution.