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Social structure and the dynamics of Inuit food sharing networks – Elspeth Ready, Anthropologist

MSHSUD 71 Rue professeur henri serre, Montpellier

Informal resource exchange networks are fundamental to people's livelihoods in many remote and rural communities worldwide. For hunter-gatherer and former hunter-gatherer populations in particular, food sharing is often central to their subsistence system and to their cultural identity. Food sharing is often understood as serving a risk-management function, but an important question in evolutionary anthropology […]

10th Journées de Phonétique Clinique

Lazaret Center La Corniche 223 Rue Pasteur Benoît, Sète

The JPC are biennial conferences of international scope. They are renowned and regarded as major conferences in the fields of voice, language and speech, whether in medical, developmental or social approaches. These multidisciplinary days are primarily intended to bring together and encourage exchanges between researchers, clinicians and phoneticians, and with all [...].

The Natural and Sexual Selection of Endometriosis Risk by Prof. Bernard Crespi (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

University of Montpellier Triolet Campus ISEM Salle Louis Thaler Bât 22 1st floor Place Eugène Bataillon, Montpellier

I propose and evaluate a new theory for helping to explain the evolution of endometriosis risk in humans. By this theory, endometriosis risk evolved in the context of sexual selection by males for high, relatively female-biased expression of sexually dimorphic and female-limited phenotypes associated with low testosterone and high female reproductive fitness. The theory is supported by […]