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 [...].
Understanding and predicting human cooperative behavior and beliefs dynamics remain a major challenge both from the scientific and practical perspectives. Because of the complexity and multiplicity of material, social and [...]
This 13th scientific day is dedicated to presenting the research of recently recruited permanent researchers working on the ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions and health in Montpellier. [...]
