The evolution of power asymmetries between the sexes in primates / Elise Huchard
Frontiers in Social Evolution Seminar
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 [...].
Wild orangutans inhabit extremely variable dietary environments with fluctuations in fruit availability that cause significant changes in their dietary compositions and total caloric intake. Many studies on mammals and primates [...]
Abstract: The evolutionary ecology of women's health: a biocultural approach Is being a woman an illness? This provocative question highlights the traditional pathologization of the reproductive function [...].
Did you know that almost 20% of our microbiota is acquired through our social interactions with the people we meet? However, the impact of this "social microbiota" on our health [...].
The Occitanie / Languedoc-Roussillon committee of the Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale will be recognizing researchers from Montpellier and our region in all fields at the Laureates' evening [...].