Conferences

We are an interdisciplinary scientific community supporting researchers who use evolutionary and ecological approaches to study human activities. Most FRESH members work in France or have close links with France.

Sociologist Bernard Lahire, CNRS Research Director at the Max-Weber Center at the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon, will give a seminar on Monday 09/12 at 2pm at the University of Montpellier, Triolet Campus (Salle 36.03). He has been invited by the Anthropologie Evolutive team at the Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution in Montpellier to present his latest book, 'Les [...].

DNA molecules still preserved in osteological vestiges provide a genetic window into our past. Over the past decade, there has been a growing interest in using molecular data to explore social structures in past societies. In particular, as families and kinship structures may act as the primary social organization, molecular archaeologists have aimed at measur-ing [...]

Working meeting between Primatology researchers...

Early life adversity ("ELA") can have lasting effects on development, influencing both survival and physical growth in wild animal populations. Maternal care plays a crucial role in these trajectories, and can mitigate the impact of various adversities. Although [...]

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 [...]

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 [...].

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 [...]

Whether social or solitary, all animals sleep. From bees to humans, animals spend between 12% and 83% of their lives in a behavioral state characterized by reduced reactivity to environmental stimuli. Although the ultimate function of sleep remains hotly contested, its importance is unanimously recognized: a [...]

A highlight of this 2025 edition will be the joint session (in English) on Wednesday afternoon, November 5, on the theme of "Evolutionary Medicine & Public Health Challenges".