ISEM Monday Seminar - Michel Raymond
Université Montpellier Campus Triolet ISEM Salle Louis Thaler Bât 22 1st floor Place Eugène Bataillon, Montpellier, Languedoc Roussillon, FranceTitle and summary to come
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"Orangutan life cycle: slow but sure" Among our closest relatives still in existence, the life of orangutans remains the least documented and understood, mainly because of the [...].
The expensive brain and the evolution of brain size Vertebrate brains vary considerably in size, and this variation is often attributed to different cognitive demands. Here, [...]
The expensive brain and the evolution of brain size Vertebrate brains vary considerably in size, and this variation is often attributed to different cognitive demands. Here, [...]
Frontiers in Social Evolution Seminar
In animal societies, control over resources and reproduction is often biased towards one sex. Such power asymmetries between the sexes largely shape male-female sexual and social relationships. In particular, males [...]
Our species' long childhood is hypothesized to have evolved as a period for learning complex foraging skills. Researchers have focused on assessing this hypothesis, yet studies present inconsistent conclusions regarding the [...]
Guest on "CQFD", a program dedicated to all the sciences and their ethical, political, economic and societal issues. Inverview about the book [...].
Risk perception - or an individual's susceptibility to perceive a threat (e.g. disease, predator, competitor) - has shaped the physiology, cognition, behavior and ecology of animals for millions of years. [...]
Conflicts over the modality of reproduction strongly shape the relationship between males and females. Yet their implications outside the reproductive context remains poorly understood. Building on a recent theoretical framework [...]
The European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association (EHBEA) brings together international researchers from the evolutionary sciences and the humanities, who are interested in physiological and behavioural adaptations [...].