Wild orangutan gut microbiomes across a shifting nutritionallandscape - Rebecca Brittain - Nsf Sbe Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Yale & Jagiellonian University
Wild orangutans inhabit extremely variable dietary environments with fluctuations in fruit availability...
Co-evolution of behavior and beliefs in social dilemmas: estimating material, social, cognitive and cultural determinants - Sergey Gavrilets
Understanding and predicting human cooperative behavior and beliefs dynamics remain a major...
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Stillbirth of a mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) in the wild: perinatal behaviors and delivery sequences
Our projects
Oxytocin and childbirth
Oxytocin is involved in a variety of biological functions, including family and social bonding, the relationship between...
Developmental Origin of Endometriosis (EnDOHAD)
Endometriosis is a common pathology, largely hereditary, but also subject to the influence of the environment: it can be influenced...
Tsaobis Baboon Project
The Tsaobis Baboon Project is a long-term study (>20 years) of a population of chacma baboons in...
The Mandrillus Project
The Mandrillus project (www.projetmandrillus.com) is studying the socio-ecology of the only habituated population of wild mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) in...
Voice
While it may appear to be the preferred medium for verbal communication, the voice is not simply a tool for mediating semantic information...
Menstrual cycle and COVID
At the start of the pandemic, there were only a handful of articles on the link between infection and menstrual cycles...Since then, our team has contributed several articles on the links between COVID, vaccines and menstrual cycles...
Genetic adaptation to risk
The aim of this project is to study risk-taking behavior, the possibility of local adaptation to a risky environment, and the genes involved in this local adaptation.
Nutrition and disease in humans
Over the course of the 20th century, a substantial change in diet took place in Westernized countries....